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FROM THE EDITOR

BUSINESS H A LL OF FAME

2018 CEO OF THE YEAR

2017 I N NOVATION AWA RDS

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Arts and Entertainment

Auto Dealers

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Business Organizations

Certified Public Accountants

CEOs and Leaders

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Chief Operating Officers

Commercial Insurance

Commercial Real Estate

Construction

Employee Benefits

Engineering

Financial Planning

Higher Education

Hospitality

Independent Schools

Insiders

Information Technology

Investment Brokers

Law: Business Litigation

Law: Employment

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Marketing and Public Relations

Medical: Group Practice Administration

Medical: Hospital Administration

Philanthropy

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The Power Players — our annual compendium of Memphis heavy hitters — is back again, brimming with updates in the usual categories and with a couple of new groupings to make it even more complete. One is in the area of education. We’re adding a list for independent schools, a roster of those headmasters who oversee essential academic and social advancement for around 18,000 of the city’s young people. Tuition costs are wide-ranging but can go upwards from $20,000 in this highly competitive area. Enrollment in private schools for pre-K to 12th grade nationwide went from 7.3 million in 2006 to 6.3 million in 2016 — a drop of 14 percent — according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So for these schools to be successful, they have to stay on their toes. Another category we’re adding this year is that of Insiders. This group is a bit different from the other lists because it’s not about holding a particular title but rather about having inf luence beyond their own organizations. These folks are advisers and consultants who typically know the intricacies of how things function in the public and private sectors, from policy to politics, and who makes those things work. They are movers and shakers that other movers and shakers talk to. As in the past, we highlight the Society of Entrepreneurs, the Memphis organization that honors the risk takers and visionaries who seem to thrive in this town. This year, SOE is inducting four new members and presenting long-time member Dr. William H. West with the Master Entrepreneur Award. The new quartet — Kim Heathcott, Kent Ritchey, Ron Coleman, Jay Myers — have made their marks in Memphis

business. Most have been at it for decades although Heathcott only got started with her security business around eight years ago. Ritchey has a gift for selling automobiles and has been doing so for about 50 years. Coleman makes the most sophisticated camshafts you’d ever want to put in your optimized NASCAR car. And Myers has taken the ever-evolving video conferencing business and navigated the changes. It only begins to scratch the surface of how varied and fascinating their stories are. Who else wields the power? We also include Inside Memphis Business’ Innovation Award winners from 2017 as well as our four CEOs of the Year from 2018. Plenty of brilliance to go around. Speaking of entrepreneurs, this issue’s cover boasts some go-getters. Colorful comedic musician and indie filmmaker Muck Sticky is working on his 20th album since 2001 and has millions of music and video streams as well as digital downloads. His latest film, “Dig That, Zeebo Newton,” is making the film festival circuit. And for more than 30 years, the Beale Street Flippers, founded by Rarecas “Rod” Bonds, has gotten worldwide attention for the youngsters’ fantastic acrobatics Downtown. There’s hustle wherever you look. So leaf through this issue of IMB and see who has the juice in this town. They’re all at the top of their games. Jon W. Sparks, Editor sparks@contemporary-media.com

Dig Deep for Memphis A 2017 survey conducted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked Memphis first in that magazine’s list of per-capita charitable contributions for America’s 50 most-populous metro areas. Memphis-area residents and businesses give more than $700 million to charity annually. Because of this spirit, Inside Memphis Business in 2015 started working together with local companies to highlight the good work done in our community. This is our “Dig Deep for Memphis” partnership program. Over the past few years, we’ve matched every advertising full page purchased by our partners with a donated page for the charitable organization of their choice. We are pleased with the “Dig Deep” program and look to expand it. For further information, contact neill@contemporary-media.com. — Kenneth Neill

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If all of the individuals featured in the pages of this special issue of Inside Memphis Business are “players,” then those featured on this particular list, the Business Hall of Fame, compose our city’s business all-star team. And what a dream team it would be, with the top players from such diverse and important industries as real estate, transportation, advertising, investing, fashion, hospitality, banking, security, and — two classic institutions in our city — cotton and music, to name a few. Here is a list of 15 Memphians whose achievements over the past several decades have done more than bring them personal and professional success; these are people who have truly changed the face of the city. They’ve put their unique stamp on Memphis and offer a shining example of what is possible for the generations of Memphians that follow in their footsteps. Chairman and CEO, Belz Enterprises, one of the South’s largest commercial real estate ﬁrms. Pioneered the factory-outlet mall concept. Renowned for work on development of The Peabody and Peabody Place. Master Entrepreneur Award, Society of Entrepreneurs, and Junior Achievement; Lifetime Achievement Award, Downtown Memphis Commission. Founder, Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art. Partnered with Henry Turley on Harbor Town and other downtown projects.

WILLIAM B. DUNAVANT JR. Founder and former CEO, Dunavant Enterprises. B.B.A., University of Memphis. Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost experts on cotton and commodities trading with holdings around the world. Inducted into Futures Industry Association’s Hall of Fame. Founder, The Racquet Club of Memphis, and brought major-league tennis to Memphis. Avid hunter, sportsman, and philanthropic patron of Ducks Unlimited and Memphis University School.

GEORGE CATES Founder, former chairman, CEO, MidAmerica Apartment Communities. Started company as Cates Company in 1977. Later became MAA on New York Stock Exchange. Former board chair, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, Memphis Rotary Club, MLGW, Memphis Symphony, Memphis Research Consortium, and more. Chair, Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. Board member, Overton Park Conservancy, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, UT.

ART GILLIAM Chairman and president, Gilliam Communications, Inc. B.A. in Economics, Yale University; M.B.A., Michigan. Founded WLOK, ﬁrst blackowned radio station in Memphis, in 1977. Named many times #1 Gospel Station in nation, Religion & Media Quarterly. WLOK recognized as a Tennessee Historic Landmark. Inducted into Society of Entrepreneurs in 2007. Longtime sponsor of WLOK Stone Soul Picnic. Received 2011 Visionary Award from Downtown Memphis Commission.

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O. MASON HAWKINS Chairman and CEO, Southeastern Asset Management, Inc. B.A., University of Florida; M.B.A., University of Georgia. Noted value investor, operates one of the most successful mutual-fund families in the world, founded in 1975; has been called “the Warren Buffett of the South.” Seeks to own highly competitive businesses “managed by honorable and capable people.” Inducted into the Society of Entrepreneurs, 1996. Played key role in the Grizzlies’ move to Memphis. J.R. “PITT” HYDE III President, Hyde Family Foundations. Founded AutoZone in 1979, now nation’s premier auto parts distributor. Inductee, Automotive Hall of Fame. Philanthropic activities include support for Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Ballet Memphis, ArtsMemphis, and Memphis in May. Helped found Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Memphis Tomorrow, and the National Civil Rights Museum. Primary sponsor of AutoZone Park. Helped bring the Grizzlies to Memphis; part of minority ownership group. IRA A. LIPMAN Founder, Guardsmark, LLC, in 1963 and sold the company to Universal Protection Service in 2015. Wharton School Board of Overseers, Dean’s Medal. American Business Ethics Award; Stanley C. Pace Leadership in Ethics Award, Committee for Economic Development. Corporate Citizenship Award. Founding Chairman, Memphis Shelby Crime Commission. Honorary life

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chairman, national chairman 1988-1992, National Conference of Christians and Jews. Honorary chairman, national chairman, chairman emeritus, National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Society of Entrepreneurs. Established the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights named in his honor at Columbia University. JOHN R. MALMO Chairman emeritus, Archer Malmo, Inc., and principal, John Malmo Marketing Consulting. Educated at Boston University. Entrepreneurial Fellow, University of Memphis. Founded John Malmo Advertising in 1967. Former president, Memphis Advertising Federation. Former director, American Association of Advertising Agencies. Recipient, American Advertising Federation Silver Medal Award. Trustee chairman, Moore Tech. Regular radio commentator, and author of When on the Mountain There Is No Tiger, Monkey Is King. BRAD MARTIN Chairman, RBM Venture Company. Former chairman and CEO, Saks Incorporated. Former interim president, U of M. Graduate, student body president, U of M. M.B.A., Vanderbilt. Grew Saks revenue from $70 million to $7 billion. Board member, Chesapeake Energy, FedEx, First Horizon, Pilot/Flying J. Author, Five Stones: Conquering Your Giants; Myles’ Pesky Friends (a children’s book). JIM MCGEHEE Former chairman, Memphis Shelby County Airport Authority. Successfully secured Northwest Airlines hub status for Memphis and inauguration of transatlantic service. Director, Financial Strategy Group Investment Management and Pinnacle Airlines. Former CEO, McGehee Realty and Development Company and McGehee Mortgage Company. Served on Baptist Memorial Hospital’s advisory board, Rhodes College Board of Trustees, Campbell Clinic Foundation.

ALLEN B. MORGAN JR. Co-founder and chairman emeritus, Regions Morgan Keegan, Inc. Launched Morgan Keegan in 1969 and took the company to national prominence as leading investment ﬁrm in the South. Firm merged with Regions Bank in 2001 and was acquired by Raymond James in 2012. Named “Entrepreneur of the Year,” Memphis Society of Entrepreneurs, 1994. One of the three outstanding CEOs in the securities industry, Financial World magazine, 1995. Former Chairman, Securities Industry Association, 2002. DAVID PORTER Founder and president, Consortium MMT. Songwriter, singer, and record producer. Grew up in South Memphis and was an integral part of the Stax Recording Studio success of the 1960s and ’70s. Along with Isaac Hayes, wrote numerous soul classics including more than 100 Billboard chart hits for Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Lou Rawls, and others. Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame, 2005. Heavily involved in Memphis small-business enterprises. RUDI E. SCHEIDT Former chairman, Hohenberg Brothers Co. Helped initiate international cotton trade with China, Eastern Europe. Graduate, University of California. Board experience includes Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Memphis College of Art, Opera Memphis, Memphis Arts Festival. Recipient, Governor’s Award for Arts Leadership, State of Tennessee. Contributions to U of M led to Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music named in his honor. FREDERICK W. SMITH Founder, chairman, and CEO, FedEx Corporation. Launched Federal Express, 1973. Since then, FedEx has become a Memphis institution and a global economic powerhouse. First implementer of airport-hub concept and pioneer of

the “Just In Time” inventory concept. Co-Chairman, Energy Security Leadership Council. Trustee, U.S. Council for International Business. Member, Aviation Hall of Fame. Consistently named one of Barron’s “World’s 30 Best CEOs.” Chief Executive 2004 CEO of the Year. PAT KERR TIGRETT Chairman and CEO, Pat Kerr, Inc. International fashion designer whose design firm specializes in bridal couture, with offices in London, New York, and Memphis. Widow of financier and philanthropist John Burton Tigrett, and a longtime “player” on the city’s music and cultural scene. Founded the Blues Ball, 1994, an annual festive salute to all forms of Memphis music, providing insurance benefits for Memphis’ legendary musicians and supporting children’s charities. Also organized the Moonshine Ball and Jingle Bell Ball. HENRY TURLEY Founder, Henry Turley Company. Real estate developer and “new urbanism” pioneer at the center of the downtown Memphis “renaissance” of the 1990s. Conceptualized and created nationally acclaimed mixed-use Harbor Town community on Mud Island, 1985, now home to several thousand residents. Developed similar communities at South Bluffs and Uptown Memphis, where mixed-income housing replaced urban blight. Founding Member of the Society of Entrepreneurs. JESSE TURNER JR. President and chairman, Tri-State Bank of Memphis. Educated at University of Chicago, and succeeded his father, Jesse Turner Sr., as Tri-State Bank head in 1990. Founded in 1946 to serve the African-American community in the Mid-South, Tri-State played an influential community role in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Operates own CPA firm. Member of Christian Brothers High School Hall of Fame. National Treasurer of the NAACP.

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KARL SCHLEDWITZ MONOGRAM FOODS (1,000+ EMPLOYEES) Karl Schledwitz loves numbers. Among his favorites: “We are 13 years old, and we have averaged 40 percent compounded annual growth rate,” he says. “We have a plan over the next five years to continue with a similar growth trajectory. Over the last 13 years we’ve had a 42 percent compounded growth of our EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization). So, it’s not just top-line growth, it’s been bottom-line growth as well.” It’s the second CEO of the Year award for Schledwitz, having taken the company even further than the first win six years ago. The company’s pro forma sales for 2017 are expected to exceed $700 million with 2,800 employees in seven states, and Schledwitz believes that the $1 billion mark is coming in the not too distant future. But he’s glad to put it in less fiscal terms: “It’s a fun, challenging, and rewarding ride with more to come. Our biggest challenge, the larger we get, is maintaining the culture that we have. That is what drives us and allows us to continue enjoying the success that we have.” To make it at Monogram, he says, you have to have that positive energy, embrace diversity, enjoy giving back, and enjoy the entrepreneurial spirit. “We’re not building this company to sell,” he says. “We plan on being around here for a long time.”

KIM HEATHCOTT CLARION SECURITY (200 TO 1,000 EMPLOYEES) Clarion was founded by Heathcott in 2009 on the premise that the employees are every bit as important as the clients. “When you’re in a business where your employees are in potential life-threatening situations, you pray for their safety and you give them the training and the tools they need, because they are that barrier person between the clients’ assets and those who would harm them,” she says. She describes her management style as “servant leadership,” and unapologetically has a finger in every pie. “I understand all the jobs because I’ve done them. I would call myself a handson leader,” she says. “In order for me to understand something, I need to walk the walk and talk the talk.” Her approach seems to be working: From one employee with no clients in 2009 to 600 employees and 90 clients, Heathcott and her team made Clarion the largest woman-owned business in Memphis for the past three years. Its clients range from relatively tranquil, like the city’s libraries, to potentially volatile, such as 201 Poplar. In 2017, revenues exceeded $10 million. And people have taken notice: The National Association of Women Business Owners recently named her Business Owner of the Year 2017, and national business magazine Inc. has recognized Clarion in its list of 5,000 fastest-growing businesses for three consecutive years.

DANIEL WEICKENAND ORION F.C.U. (50 TO 200 EMPLOYEES) If a credit union is in trouble, it needs to hire someone like Weickenand to make a transformation. He has built his career on turning around troubled institutions, helping credit unions overcome poor management decisions. “All leaders should have vision,” says the executive. “You have to move forward. In the credit union world, if you’re not growing, you’re not going anywhere.” During his seven-year tenure, Orion has grown to be the largest credit union in West Tennessee, with more than 62,000 members and $700 million in assets. Weickenand, who sits on the board of directors of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions, places Orion among the top 5 percent of credit unions nationally. On joining Orion (then the Memphis Area Teachers Credit Union), Weickenand found a deeply distressed company with an equally dispirited staff. “Nothing looked good,” he says. “Nothing.” But he saw an opportunity. He rebuilt and rebranded the institution, streamlined lending practices, mandated accountability, and instituted a new core banking system. His gamble paid off. “You have to take risks, to listen, to say what you’ll do and then do it,” he says of leadership. “You have to treat people with dignity and stand for something larger than yourself.”

JENNIFER KRUCHTEN TRAVELENNIUM (1 TO 50 EMPLOYEES) The travel industry has changed in big, sweeping ways since 1989, when Kruchten started working at Travelennium (then Omega Travel). With so many aggregators online offering enticing discounts, how does a travel agency stay viable today? By embracing change. Kruchten’s team of agents encourage people to research fares online — but to call them when it’s time to book. In an industry whose pricing and logic can feel opaque, Travelennium offers clarity and simplicity. In 2001, when Kruchten took ownership of Travelennium, there were 37,000 travel agencies in the United States. Today — only 7,000. That’s the backdrop to Kruchten’s success, which continues to grow: By August of 2017, Travelennium had equaled its 2016 full-year earnings. Kruchten explored all aspects of the business over her first decade with the company. From accounting to group meetings to leisure travel, she had learned the routes. In October of 2001, she bought the company, and today, the team continues to seek new opportunities. “We want the entire trip to be a good memory — we want it to be effervescent,” says Kruchten. In addition to personal travel — honeymoons and family adventures — Travelennium also works with a roster of corporate clients on meetings and conferences.

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CHARLIE MCVEAN AND CHARLIE NEWMAN THE BIG RIVER CROSSING Miracles were needed to make the $18 million, mile-long walking and biking bridge that spans the Mississippi River a reality. But businessman Charlie McVean, founder of McVean Trading and Investments, brought leadership, devotion, and money to The Big River Crossing project and made those miracles happen. Charlie Newman, a lawyer with Burch, Porter and Johnson, was involved early on, making his own invaluable contributions. Like McVean, he wondered why you couldn’t bike or walk across the river. The Harahan Bridge’s two unused decks carried cars and trucks across the bridge for years. Why not reimagine them? First they had to persuade Union Pacific Railroad to allow it. “They thought of every possible risk and obstacle they could think of,” Newman says. “They ended up making it just as expensive and hard to do as they could.” Then they needed a federal grant. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen helped secure the nearly $15 million grant. And then it had to be built. “There were engineering, technical, and railroad problems, which could only be solved at great difficulty,” Newman says. But build it they did. The Big River Crossing opened in October 2016, became a local hit instantly and has been drawing tourists from around the world, adding to Memphis’ growing reputation for adventure tourism.

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DR. GIANCARLO MARI UTHSC OB F.A.S.T. The scourge of infant mortality has no greater foe than Dr. Giancarlo Mari. At the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, he’s chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship. At Regional One Health, he’s director of the High-Risk Obstetrics Center of Excellence. In 2008, he launched a simulation program at Regional One that evolved into a singular way to decrease infant mortality rates. The model is OB F.A.S.T. (Obstetrical Feasible Approach to Safety Training) and it’s designed to improve care for high-risk pregnancies by training healthcare workers to efficiently handle obstetrical emergencies before, during and after delivery. It emphasizes teamwork, communication, shared decision making, and knowledge of immediate response protocols. Dr. Mari credits his team, particularly Dr. Danielle Tate, Bonnie Miller, RN, and Dr. Ravpreet Gill. OB F.A.S.T has trained hundreds of healthcare providers in 20 states. He also pioneered the assessment of fetal circulation with Doppler ultrasound. At Yale, he was principal investigator of a project that brought non-invasive Doppler ultrasound techniques to the diagnosis of fetal anemia. Dr. Mari also developed a fellowship at UTHSC in maternal/fetal medicine to train physicians in high-risk obstetrical care and added a perinatal patient-safety nurse coordinator to the high-risk obstetrics program.

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DR. BRIAN SORRENTINO ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL SCID TREATMENT For children afflicted by severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), there is no margin for error. A lack of immune cells means that the children are unable to protect themselves from infection and the term “bubble boy” referenced such children who had to live in a sterile chamber to avoid infection. Most untreated children with SCID die within the first two years of their lives. Until recently, a matching bone marrow transplant from a sibling was the most effective treatment. The problem, however, is that many children do not have a matching donor. Two years ago, Dr. Brian Sorrentino and several colleagues from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital revealed a new, safe, and effective form of gene therapy treatment for patients with the most common strain of SCID. The new process, which has so far been used to treat SCID, has the potential to be used for other immunodeficient diseases as well. St. Jude is looking at the possibility of using it to treat Sickle-Cell Disease. Dr. Sorrentino says any disease of the blood system caused by known genetic defects is amenable to this newly developed approach. Looking down the road, Dr. Sorrentino says a number of biopharmaceutical companies are interested in licensing this and eventually conducting a phase 3 trial, making it FDA approved.

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JULIE ROMINE AGING IN PLACE PROGRAM Habitat for Humanity, known for building homes, also has embraced a mission of providing repairs. More than 7,000 seniors in Memphis need home improvements and most want to stay in their homes, but some repair issues have made that difficult to achieve. Habitat’s Neighborhood Revitalization program launched in 2011 to make those critical fixes for homeowners, the majority of whom were seniors. Julie Romine, director of programs and strategic alliances, oversees the program. Some 90 percent of clients were very low income seniors — averaging $10,000 a year — with no resources to make the fixes. The team can install grab bars in bathrooms, change round door knobs to lever handles, put in hand-held showers, build wheelchair ramps, install fire and carbon monoxide alarms, and make repairs to plumbing, windows, and weatherization. The Aging in Place program has served more than 350 families in the last few years. The team also works closely with social services to make sure residents are getting what they need beyond a livable place. The results are gratifying: Clients often have their utility bills go down to the point that they can afford needed medication, many homes that have lost insurance can now have it reinstated, and wheelchair ramps mean clients aren’t confined to the house.

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Poets and philosophers have meditated on what makes architecture sing to the soul. Le Corbusier said, “Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, “Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” (And don’t forget George Costanza’s “You know I always wanted to pretend I was an architect.”) Humankind’s most lasting art form is architecture. When man added form to his shelter’s function, it was art. When engineering and design were introduced, it was formal architecture. When it lasted lifetimes, it was truth. We’re fortunate to have these POWER PLAYERS who have mastered this city-enhancing art form. Their creations range from schools to hospitals, banks to municipal buildings, corporate centers to casinos. REBECCA CONRAD Principal, ANF Architects, LEED Accredited Professional, specializing in architecture, interior design, and master planning. Projects include U of M: Community Health Facility and Law School; Christian Brothers University: Rosa Deal School of Arts, Cooper-Wilson Science Center, and Buckman; Trezevant Manor and The Village at Germantown Retirement Communities; St. Louis Catholic School; and more. METCALF CRUMP Chairman and CEO, The Crump Firm, Inc. Master in Architecture, Harvard. Graduate studies at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Firm includes architects, planners, and designers. Clients include FedEx, Smith & Nephew, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, International Paper, Orpheum Theatre, Highwoods Properties, CBRE Memphis, and Commercial Advisors. Past president, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Tennessee and AIA Memphis. AIA College of Fellows. DIANNE DIXON Founding Partner, Clark/Dixon Architects. Projects include SCSO Firing Range, Cancer Survivors Park, Raymond Skinner Center for the Disabled, and the library at the Metal Museum. Recipient, AIA Memphis Merit Award and Award of Excellence, AIA Tennessee. Founding board member and architect, Memphis Farmers Market. Founder and board Member, Riverfront Development Corporation. First woman president, Construction Speciﬁcations Institute of Memphis. President, 2016 NAWBO Memphis. Board member, Memphis Regional Chamber of Commerce.

SCOTT FLEMING President, Fleming Architects, PC. Projects include University of Memphis Law School, Kroc Center, St. Mary’s School, New Collierville High School, and more. Past president, AIA Memphis. Past chairman, Streets Ministries, National Council of Architectural Registration Board; Lambda Alpha, Urban Land Institute, Land Use Control Board; Shelby Farms Project Board. RICK GARDNER Principal and practice leader, HBG Design. Bachelor of Architecture, University of Tennessee. With HBG Design more than 33 years. Clients include Graceland, Carlisle Corporation, Boyle, Hard Rock International, FedEx World Wide Headquarters, and UTHSC. Helped HBG Design be named a TOP 10 leading U.S. hospitality and entertainment design ﬁrm, and to achieve multiple “Best Place to Work” awards. TIMOTHY N. GARRETT Director of Architecture at Belz Enterprises/Belz Architecture. U of M graduate, AIA Member, NCARB, and LEED AP. Recent projects include Methodist South ICU Renovations, UTMP Head and Neck Surgery, IBBI Madison-Wisconsin, and Poplar Tower Renovations. AIA Memphis Board of Directors 2011, secretary 2012, and treasurer 2015. Advisory board member for Memphis & Shelby County Humane Society. Registered in IN, NY, OK, TN, TX, WI. SUSAN GOLDEN Founding partner, ﬁnance director & healthcare practice leader, brg3s architects. Bachelor of Architecture, University of Tennessee. Clients include Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Regional One Health, Youth Villages, Shelby County, West Cancer Center. Notable projects include Methodist

University ED, Methodist Germantown Women’s Pavilion, Methodist Hospice, and Youth Villages. Current projects include Youth Villages’ Residential Treatment Center and the Shelby County Health Department. Member and former board representative of the Memphis Chapter, American Institute of Architects. Secretary of Memphis Rotary Club. LEED AP and NCARB certified. JOSEPH HAGAN Principal and co-founder, Architecture, Incorporated. Master of Architecture, Tulane University. Clients include University Place, East High School, Legends Park, ODEN Marketing Communications, Memphis in May, and 100 North Main, LLC. Member, American Institute of Architects. Board member, Southern Hot Wings Festival. President, Kiwanis Club of Memphis. Board president, Memphis Heritage. Vice chairman of the board, Orion Federal Credit Union. REB HAIZLIP Principal, Haizlip Studio. Master of Architecture, Tulane. Practice specializes in education, museums, and nonprofits. Projects include U of M Student Center, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Island Play@Beale Street Landing, and more. Board member, Tulane School of Architecture and AIA Tennessee. Trustee, Aydelott Education Fund. Member, AIA Memphis, American Museum Association, Association of Children’s Museums, and Association of Science and Technology Centers. CARTER HORD Principal, Hord Architects. Bachelor of Architecture, Auburn University. Master of Architecture, Cornell University. Firm specializes in master planning, architecture, and interior design for nonprofit and institutional clients. Received AIA 150 Design Award of Merit. Memberships in Memphis Chapter of American Institute of Architects, NCARB, Institute for Classical Architecture, and Congress for the New Urbanism. Chairman, Memphis Shelby County Building Code Board. TOM MCCONNELL Principal/lead architect, Pickering Firm, Inc. Bachelor of Architecture, University of Tennessee – Knoxville. Projects include FedEx Ground Sort Hubs, Smith & Nephew, Kroger stores – including Kroger Union Avenue, Nike-Northridge expansion, Wright Medical HQ, TBC Distribution Center, Volvo Distribution Center, and Memphis Union Mission. Member, American Institute of Architects and National Fire Protection Association.

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FRANK RICKS Founding principal, Looney Ricks Kiss/ LRK. Firm nationally recognized for sustainable community planning, urban design, mixed-use, residential, office, and retail projects. Projects include Crosstown Concourse, Overton Square Plan/Garage, Chisca Hotel, Catherine & Mary’s, FedExFamilyHouse, AutoZone Park, Stax Museum, Old Dominick Distillery, Tennessee Brewery, Pinch District Plan. Chairman, Memphis Chamber Chairman’s Circle LRP Committee. Board member, ULI Memphis, New Memphis Institute, TN Parks & Greenways Foundation, College of Art/Music at U of M. STEWART A. SMITH Senior architect, A2H, Inc. Master of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnical Institute. Clients include Baptist Memorial Health Care, Baptist Medical Group, The Bluff restaurant on the Highland Strip, and more. EDAC Certified, The Center for Health Design. LEED Accredited Professional, U.S. Green Building Council. Certified Professional, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. Member, American Institute of Architects. MICHAEL TERRY Senior vice president and partner. Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Technology, University of Memphis. Firm offers architecture, civil engineering, planning, landscape design, and interior design services. Projects include Olympus Medical Device Repair facility, Lakeland Middle Preparatory School, Federal Reserve Bank. Clients include FedEx, City of Memphis, Shelby County Schools, Arlington Community Schools, Lakeland School System, City of Germantown. Member, American Institute of Architects.

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JIMMIE TUCKER Managing principal, Self + Tucker Architects. Bachelor’s, Princeton; Master’s in Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis. Projects include Cleaborn Pointe at Heritage Landing, Hattiloo Theatre, Memphis Business Academy, and National Civil Rights Museum. President, Memphis Chapter, National Organization of Minority Architects. Trustee, Memphis Regional Design Center, New Memphis Institute, and United Housing Inc. Adjunct Professor, Architecture, U of M. BARRY ALAN YOAKUM Co-principal, archimania with Todd Walker. Collaborative ranked 20th best Design Architect in the U.S. Projects include Ballet Memphis, Christian Brothers University, City Leadership, GPAC, FedEx, Hattiloo Theatre, Mid-South Food Bank, Memphis Veterinary Specialists, Meritan, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, and more. Recognized by Architect, ArchDaily, Architectural Record, Dwell, Wall Street Journal and World Architecture News. T H E P O W E R P L AY E R S 2 0 1 8 | IN S ID E M EM P HI S B U S IN E S S .C O M |

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“The artist has a special task and duty: the task of reminding men of the depth of their humanity and the promise of their creativity,” said historian Mumford Lewis. While Memphis has given the world tangible goods and services that have reshaped the way we do business and experience the world — overnight delivery, modern-day hotels, grocery shopping — it has also produced its share of artists and entertainment entrepreneurs who have opened our eyes and turned the world on its ear. Alongside the names of Fred Smith, Kemmons Wilson, and Clarence Saunders, one might find Sam Phillips, Jim Stewart, William Eggleston, and Carroll Cloar. And the POWER PLAYERS listed here persist in the tradition of culture as business with their recording studios, theatres, music venues, record stores, art galleries and museums, and performing ensembles. WARD ARCHER Owner and founder, Archer Records and Music+Arts Studio. Manager, Blue Barrel Records. Recent studio work includes recording The Love Light Orchestra featuring John Nemeth, with two-time Grammy winner Matt Ross-Spang. New projects include Summer Avenue, Mathis Haug, Vanessa Collier, Watermelon Slim, Blind Mississippi Morris, Bruce Newman, mixing for UK Americana Artist of the Year, Emily Barker, Faith Evans Ruch, re-mixing upcoming Sony video release “Kris Kristofferson -Live at the Isle of Wight, 1970”. Film sound work includes award-winning documentary “Good Grief,” Memphis ﬁlm prize winner “We Go On,” Mark Adams & Alan Spearman’s “Me and the Light,” “The Memphis Massacre of 1866” documentary. Founded “Protect Our Aquifer” to challenge TVA’s plans to use drinking water to cool the new Allen power plant. EKUNDAYO BANDELE Founder and CEO, Hattiloo Theatre. From 2011-2013 he spearheaded a $4.3 million and a second $1 million capital campaign, resulting in a newly constructed theatre and annexed development center in Overton Square that opened, debt-free, in June 2014. Board member, Overton Park Conservancy, Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, Memphis Brand Initiative. Received United Way of the Mid-South award, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis award, Congressional Certiﬁcate of Honor. BRETT BATTERSON President & CEO, Orpheum Theatre Group, the parent organization of the Orpheum Theatre and Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education. B.A., Augsburg College; M.F.A., Tulane University. Orpheum currently has the highest number of season ticket holders in its history. Recognized by North American Performing Arts 18 |

Managers and Agents as North American Presenter of the Year, 2017. Award given annually to single arts presenter who exemplifies best practices in the field, excellence in mentoring, success in community building as demonstrated by efforts to improve access and racial equity in their work. Founder, Memphis Cultural Coalition. Antoinette Perry Award (TONY) voter. Active with Rotary Club of Memphis, Independent Presenters Network, Broadway League. MICHAEL BOLLINGER Director, Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center. Served as theater and performing arts center director in Missouri, Virginia, New Jersey. Founder, Mainstage Theatre. Former artistic director, Lyceum Theatre. Produced or directed over 200 theatrical productions, including the American regional theater premiere of AIDA. Presented over 500 concerts and events, including Grammy, CMA, and Tony Award winning artists. Recipient, Missouri Arts Award, and Governor’s proclamation. Work in the past received a commendation from President Clinton. SCOTT BOMAR Memphis-based musician, Emmy Award-winning film/TV composer, and producer. Projects include films “Hustle & Flow,” “Black Snake Moan,” “Soul Men.” Produced, engineered Cyndi Lauper’s Grammy-nominated album Memphis Blues. Songwriter, William Bell’s 2017 Grammy-winning album, This is Where I Live. Leader, The Bo-Keys, with music featured in the films “Grudge Match,” “Soul Men,” the ABC series,“Scandal” and the CBS series, “Scorpion.” Recently scored the film “Mississippi Grind.” Produced Don Bryant album Don’t Give Up On Love which was nominated for numerous Blues Music Awards.

STEPHANIE BUTLER Executive director, Children’s Museum of Memphis. Graduate, Rhodes College; M.B.A., Columbia Business School; M.A., John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Extensive philanthropic experience, with previous roles at Hyde Family Foundation, FedEx Corporation. Former chief strategy ofﬁcer, United Way of the Mid-South. NED CANTY General director, Opera Memphis. B.A., Catholic University of America. Directed at Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Florida Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Israeli Vocal Arts Institute, Shanghai Conservatory. Oversaw creation of annual 30 Days of Opera showcase and Midtown Opera Festival, successfully reaching out to young people and the wider community. Board member, Opera America. American Delegate to World Opera Forum, 2018. CEO of the Year 2017, Inside Memphis Business. PAUL CHANDLER Executive director, Germantown Performing Arts Center (GPAC). A 25-year veteran in entertainment, production, and the venue industry with a successful history in major fundraising. Leads a multidisciplinary venue presenting modern dance, ballet, theater, classical, physical theater, music of every genre. Oversees educational programming, large youth symphony orchestra while managing a venue widely used by IRIS Orchestra, Memphis Symphony, Opera Memphis. Worked with Memphis Botanic Garden to create Live at the Garden concert series. TREY DEHART Owner, Minglewood Hall and 1884 Lounge. Offers full event booking, production, planning, promotion. Concerts include Huey Lewis & the News, Megadeth, Eric Church, B52’s, Florida Georgia Line, Vince Gill, Elvis Costello, Alabama Shakes, Deftones. Special events include Hampton Inn, Big Brothers Big Sisters Sports Ball, Scion, Coke, Boys & Girls Club, Mitsubishi Electric, Methodist Hospice. Voted Top Two Best Venues ﬁve years in a row, Memphis Flyer; Memphis Most, Commercial Appeal. Involved with several charities and fundraisers. JIM GREEN Founder and owner, Green Machine Concerts. General Manager, BankPlus Amphitheater, Snowden Grove. Co-founder, TCB Concerts. National Tour Promoter. Producer, 2008 Presidential Debate Concert,

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Ole Miss. Former producer, IEBA Conference; Bikes, Blues and BBQ; Stax 50th Anniversary Concert. Former talent buyer, Beale Street Music Festival, Live at the Garden concert series, and Mud Island Amphitheater. Named to “40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Member, Board of Governors, The Recording Academy. JON HORNYAK Senior executive director, Recording Academy Memphis Chapter. B.A., U of M. 2016 recipient, U of M College of Communication and Fine Arts Distinguished Achievement Award. Architect of the Grammy Museum’s Living Histories video archives. Executive Producer, Sounds of Memphis documentary. Involved in MusiCares charity that provides assistance for music people in times of need. Board member, Grammy Museum Mississippi. Multiple past Mid-South Regional Emmy Awards nominations. CARISSA HUSSONG Executive director, Metal Museum, only organization in the U.S. dedicated to the art and craft of ﬁne metalwork. Bachelor’s, University of Washington and Boston University; M.B.A., U of M; Whitney Museum of American Art Curatorial Fellow. Named one of “25 Who Shaped Memphis: 1989-2014,” Memphis Flyer and “40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Recipient of Ellida Fri Leadership Award, 50 Women Who Make A Difference, and Memphis Center City Commission Vision Award. Former founding executive director of the UrbanArt Commission. MARCIA KAUFMANN Executive director, IRIS Orchestra. Graduate, Manhattan School of Music. Recently served as executive director, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Breckenridge Musica Festival. Co-founder and artistic director, Icicle Creek Music Center, a summer chamber music festival of performance and advanced studies in Leavenworth, Washington. Member, numerous chamber ensembles and chamber orchestras. PRESTON LAMM CEO, River City Management, which includes Rum Boogie Cafe, King’s Palace Cafe, Pig on Beale, Mesquite Chop House (Southaven, Memphis, Germantown, and Oxford), Spindini. Graduate, Mississippi State. Former board member, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau, Memphis Music Commission, DeSoto Arts Council. Recipient, Pioneer Award, 2004, Memphis Restaurant Association, for redeveloping restaurant business on Beale Street. Finalist, 2013 CEO of the Year award, Inside Memphis Business.

DAVID LESS Co-founder, Memphis International Records, Merless Publishing, LLC. B.A., Communication Arts, Rhodes College; M.A., African American Music, University of Memphis. Member, NARAS, Jazz Journalist Association. Recipient, Keeping the Blues Alive award, Blues Foundation. Former Board Member, NARAS, Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission, Levitt Shell. Former panelist, Folklore Advisor Panel, Tennessee Arts Commission. Former partner, Memphis International Records. DEBBIE LITCH Executive producer, Theatre Memphis. B.S., Mathematics; M.A., Guidance Counseling. Recipient, Memphis Symphony Orchestra Hebe Award for outstanding contribution to the arts; Germantown Arts Alliance Arts and Humanities Award; American Association of Community Theatre’s Twink Lynch Award; Gyneka Award from Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis; “Janie McCrary Putting It Together” Ostrander Award; Memphis Symphony Amphion Award. National Planned Giving Institute Certiﬁcation, College of William & Mary. SHERRY MAY Co-ﬁrector, Live at the Garden summer concert series at the Memphis Botanic Garden. Former director of marketing, development and special events, Beale Street Historic District. With co-director Jamison Totten, has helped make Live at the Garden, now in its 18th year, a premiere outdoor entertainment venue in the Mid-South, with an annual attendance of more than 30,000 people. Focus on marketing, public relations, sponsorships, sales. Co-producer, Summer Symphony at the Live Garden. Member, Memphis Cultural Coalition, Memphis Marketing Collective. Board member, The Blues Foundation. Former board member, Memphis Convention & Visitor’s Bureau. LAWRENCE “BOO” MITCHELL Chief manager/engineer, Royal Studios. Chapter governor, Memphis Chapter of The Recording Academy. Producer, “Take Me to the River” documentary. Has won several awards from NARAS for working on Grammy award-winning and nominated projects. Clients include Al Green, Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, North Mississippi All-Stars, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Boz Scaggs, Wu-Tang Clan, John Mayer. 2016 Grammy award for producer of “Uptown Funk.”

ROBERT MOODY Music director, Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Internationally acclaimed conductor, having guest conducted such world class orchestras as the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. International work includes Slovenian Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra. In demand as both orchestral and opera conductor. Work can be heard on multiple commercial audio recordings. EMILY BALLEW NEFF Director, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. B.A., Yale; M.A., Rice University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Leading art museum with a core mission of education and public service. Celebrated 100 years in 2016. President, Association of Art Museum Curators. Fellow, Center for Curatorial Leadership. First curator of american painting and sculpture at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, with expertise in American art, eighteenth-century art, photography. ANNE E. PITTS Executive director, Levitt Shell at Overton Park. Worked in arts for more than 10 years, serving in a variety of positions including manager, director, associate director, lawyer. Former board member, Memphis Chapter of the Recording Academy, Music Maker Relief Foundation. Former chair, Intellectual Property Section, Mississippi Bar. Co-compiler, Oxford American’s annual Southern Music Issue for four years, including 10th anniversary double issue. 2015 Innovation Award winner, Inside Memphis Business. DOROTHY GUNTHER PUGH Founding artistic director, Ballet Memphis. Nationally respected leader in movement to diversify American ballet. Fellowships at Stanford and National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program. Professional company tours internationally to prestigious venues including Kennedy Center. Recipient, Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis Legends Award, Women of Achievement Award for Initiative, Thomas W. Briggs Foundation

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Award for Community Service, Gordon Holl Outstanding Arts Administrator Award. Member, Dance-USA Board of Trustees; chair Dance-USA Art Director’s Council. One of ﬁve women artistic directors of major U.S. dance companies. 2017 Memphian of the Year, Memphis magazine. KEVIN SHARP Linda W. and S. Herbert Rhea director, Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Leads museum and public garden with dynamic and diverse exhibition and education programs. Expanded Dixon’s audience, membership, donor base, income yearly since 2007. Built collaborative relationships with museums in U.S., Europe. Oversaw Dixon’s AAM reaccreditation in 2011, developed strategic plans in 2009, 2012, 2016. Created comprehensive plan for facilities and grounds in 2014. Had a major renovation of the museum in 2015.

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America is a car culture. Ever since Henry Ford started rolling Model T cars off an assembly line, the word has been GO. Innovations have turned a car into an art, into a muscle, into a magnet, into a lifestyle decision, into a political statement. We are our cars (and trucks and SUVs). Most everybody remembers the first car they ever owned — it’s like your first kiss. That feeling can linger for a lifetime. From affordable to luxurious, from domestic to import, from basic to loaded with bells and whistles, a wide range of automobiles on the streets of Memphis can be traced back to the POWER PLAYERS who fill these pages. And when it comes to getting around our city from point A to point B, these are the folks who get the wheels — and heads — turning. We go to them when that magnet and muscle start drawing us in. DAVID S. ANDREWS Founder and CEO, City Enterprises, LLC, parent company for City Auto Sales, Dealers Auto Auction Group, City Auto Finance, Pace Financial, and City Leasing. City Enterprises operates in two states with over 600 employees. Crystal Award for Corporate Philanthropy, Association of Fundraising Professionals. Supporter of ALS, American Cancer Society, St. Jude, Le Bonheur, Porter-Leath, and a host of other organizations. Board member, Better Business Bureau and National Independent Automobile Dealers Association. Advisory Board, Wells Fargo and Triumph Bank. MARK GOODFELLOW Owner, It’s All Good Auto Sales. Community service includes adopting Westwood and Kirby High Schools, the Red Day Program with Keller Williams, and Porter-Leath. “Favorite Used Car Dealership,” The Commercial Appeal, Memphis Most. Was a four-star athlete at Marion High School in Arkansas, excelling at basketball, baseball, football, and tennis. With Devin Donaldson, won the 2010 United States Tennis Association’s 7.0 Mixed Doubles National Championships in Arizona. AL GOSSETT President, CEO, and owner, Gossett Motor Cars. Company operates 17 auto dealerships in Memphis and is the largest privately owned automotive group in the Mid-South. Gossett Motor Cars manufacturers include Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, Kia, Hyundai, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Fiat, Maserati, and Alfa Romeo. Member, ownership group of Memphis Grizzlies. Board member, Landmark Community Bank. Director, Sequential Brands Group, Inc. Strong supporter and advocate of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and Make-A-Wish. 22 |

RUSSELL GWATNEY President, Gwatney Mazda of Germantown, Gwatney Saab of Memphis, and Gwatney Mazda of Jackson. B.A., Arkansas. Finalist, 2005 Time Quality Dealer of the Year. Recipient, Andrew Jackson Award, and 2000 Tennessee Volunteer of the Year, Tennessee Society of Economic Development. Board member and former chairman, Tennessee Motor Vehicle Commission. Member, Tennessee Automotive Association Insurance Trust. Former chairman, Greater Memphis Chamber and Memphis Youth Initiative. TRUDY HIGGINBOTHAM MOODY Owner, Mercedes-Benz of Collierville. B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Also owns Mercedes-Benz and Porsche of Jackson, Mississippi; Winner of “Best MercedesBenz Dealership to Work For” in nation, Mercedes-Benz “Best of the Best” Dealer, Porsche “Premier Dealer” winner. Involved with the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children and the Mississippi Animal Rescue League. HENRY A. HUTTON President/dealer, Chuck Hutton Chevrolet, Chuck Hutton Toyota, Scion, Mid-South Accessory Center, and Chuck Hutton Co. Graduate of UT with a degree in business, Tennessee Banking School at Vanderbilt University, Banking School of the South at LSU. Board member, Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association. President, Mid-South Chevy Dealers Local Marketing Group. Board member, Memphis Zoo. JAMES J. KERAS JR. President, Jim Keras Automotive Group. B.S., Business Administration, UT. Familyowned business since 1949. Became dealer principal in 1978. Recipient, “Circle of Excellence,” General Motors “Select Dealer,” and “Mark of Excellence” awards. Member, Board of Commissioners,

Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority. Former president, 100 Club of Memphis and Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association. Volunteer pilot for Angel Flight missions. ERNIE NORCROSS Owner/general manager, Volvo Cars of Memphis. Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Tennessee at Martin. Board member and past president, Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association. Appointed to Volvo Retailer Advisory Board, Creative Forum Board, and Volvo Product Advisory Board. Member, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Memphis Club. Past member, Houston High School Booster Club. Supports Memphis Union Mission, Make-A-Wish Mid-South, and Alex’s Lemonade Stand. BRUCE KENT RITCHEY SR. President, Landers Auto Group, a privately owned dealership group with locations in Memphis, Southaven, and Jackson, Mississippi. Hendrix College graduate. Automobile Franchises include: Ford, Nissan, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Buick, GMC, Audi, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volkswagen. President, Greater Memphis Auto Dealers Association. Chairman, Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South, Board of Visitors University of Memphis, heavily involved in Collierville, Germantown, and Desoto County Education Associations. Major benefactor of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital through FedEx St. Jude Classic and St. Jude Memphis Marathon. Partner with Susan G. Komen Mid-South. JOSEPH H. SCHAEFFER III President, Wolfchase Honda and Wolfchase Nissan. Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Texas Christian University. Member of Honda Market Advisors Board, Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South, Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association, National Automobile Dealers Association, and Tennessee Automotive Association. Former vice chair, St. Mary’s Board of Trustees. Former treasurer, Holy Communion Vestry. Active in Memphis Youth Services and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. ROB WALKER General manager, Inﬁniti of Memphis. Began management career when the family-owned dealership opened in 1990. Multiple recipient, Inﬁniti Award of Excellence. Member, National Automobile Dealers Association, Tennessee Automotive Association, and the Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association. Sponsor, Live at the Garden concert series. Longtime supporter of the Ovarian Cancer Awareness Foundation and the Memphis Chapter of the PKD Foundation.

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Banking: Administration

When it comes to banking institutions, a strong leader is as good as gold. The POWER PLAYERS in Banking Administration have dedicated their careers to ensuring that their financial institutions run properly and that the money entrusted to them is in good hands. And these days, when it comes to our bottom lines, few things are more important than being able to trust the folks who oversee our hard-earned dollars. We have chosen administrators from local banks and from branches of national banks and from financial institutions that aren’t technically banks at all, credit unions. Regardless, their training and experience cover residential, commercial, and private banking with a strong focus on customer service. You may already know your banker or teller; now meet your financial institution’s administrator. KIRK BAILEY Chairman, West Tennessee, Pinnacle Bank. Leadership positions in Memphis bank since 1980. Founded Magna Bank 1999. Born in Memphis. Graduate, magna cum laude U of M, where he was captain of the golf team. PMD degree, Harvard Business School. Very active in industry, community affairs. Board member, five local organizations. Serves in many capacities, Christ United Methodist Church. TARA BURTON President and CEO, FedEx Employees Credit Association. B.S., Mathematics, University of Central Arkansas; M.B.A., Accounting, U of M. NAFCU Certified Compliance Officer. Recipient, 2017 Super Women in Business Award, Memphis Business Journal. Honoree, 2016 Women to Watch, Credit Union Times. Volunteer, Rachel’s Kids, Girl Scouts of America, FedEx Family House, Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, Idlewild Elementary PTO, Central Gardens Neighborhood Association. HAROLD BYRD President, Bank of Bartlett. B.B.A. and M.S., Business, U of M. Co-founder, Bank of Bartlett, Bartlett Mortgage, Bartlett Travel. Former Tennessee State Representative. Former special assistant to U.S. Senator Jim Sasser. President, Memphis Rebounders. Former president, U of M Alumni Association, Tiger Scholarship Fund. Recipient, Partner in Education Award, SCS; Distinguished Alumni Award, U of M. Board of Directors, U of M, Lane College, Crescent Club. WILLIAM J. CHASE JR. Founding president and CEO, Triumph Bank. B.A., History and Business Administration, Vanderbilt University. Attended University College, Oxford University. Graduate, National Commercial Lending School, American Bankers Association (ABA). Founded bank in 2005, 24 |

specializing in commercial banking. Member, Economic Club of Memphis. Former member, Community Bankers Council Division (ABA). Former board member, Tennessee Bankers Association. Former president, Chickasaw Country Club. FRANK CIANCIOLA Board chairman, president, and CEO, Bank3. Former CEO, Victory Bank & Trust; founder, CEO, and chairman, Renasant Bank. Served as chairman and vice chairman, Metropolitan Bank. M.S., Finance, U of M; Graduate School of International Banking (University of Virginia), Graduate School of Commercial Lending (University of Oklahoma), The Effective Executive Program (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania). W. CRAIG ESRAEL President and CEO, First South Financial. B.B.A. and M.B.A., University of Wisconsin. M.S., University of Arkansas. Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. Executive of the Year, Memphis Business Journal. Chairman, St. Francis Hospital-Bartlett. Entrepreneur of the Year, Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce. CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business. Proﬁled as one of The Fittest CEOs in America by Fortune. Recipient, Tennessee Volunteer Commendation Award by Governor of Tennessee; University of Wisconsin Distinguished Alumni Award. JAMES P. “JAKE” FARRELL Chairman, president, CEO, Landmark Community Bank. B.S., Business Administration, University of Arkansas; National Commercial Lending Graduate School, University of Oklahoma; Stonier Graduate School of Banking; Rutgers University; International School of Banking, University of Virginia. Former trustee and vice chair, St. George’s Independent School. Co-chair, Dishes-For-Wishes. Supports Holy Apostles Episcopal Church.

MOTT FORD Vice chairman and CEO, Commercial Bank and Trust Company. Graduate, UT, Stonier Graduate School of Banking, American Bankers Association. With company more than 20 years. Past president, Independent Bankers Division of the Tennessee Bankers Association. Board member, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences (charter school), Tennessee Bankers Association, Memphis Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. GENE HENSON President, Memphis & North Mississippi Region, Trustmark National Bank. B.B.A., Accountancy, University of Mississippi; Graduate School of Banking, LSU. Past board member, Tennessee Bankers Association, Past chairman, Government Relations Committee. Past member, Government Relations Council Administrative Committee, American Bankers Association. Member, Board of Governors, Greater Memphis Chamber. Member and past chairman, Board of Regents Executive Committee, Barret School of Banking. Past member, Board of Trustees, Memphis Museums, Inc. Past member, Campaign Cabinet Executive Committee, United Way of the Mid-South. Past member, Board of Directors, University of Mississippi Alumni Association. Member, Economic Club of Memphis. BRYAN JORDAN Chairman, President, and CEO, First Horizon National Corporation. B.A., Catawba College. Responsible for setting strategic direction for the 4,300-employee company, managing assets, and overseeing day-to-day operations. Named 2017 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business; Best CEO, mid-cap category, Institutional Investor magazine’s 2013 All-American Executive Team. Board member, American Bankers Association, American Bankers Council, AutoZone, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Governor’s Foundation for Health and Wellness, Memphis Tomorrow, Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America, Operation HOPE, Tennessee Bankers Association. Chairman, Youth Villages and Memphis Tomorrow.

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CELEBRATING

70 YEARS Since 1947

Chris Bird and his team at Dillard Door & Entrance Control continue the fine tradition of service excellence and integrity that the Mid-South has come to expect from the Dillard name...Since 1947.

70 DOOR & ENTRANCE CONTROL

CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF

COMPLETE SECURITY SOLUTIONS

What was once a small business focused primarily on selling glass and garage doors has grown into an enterprise that now offers the most advanced security solutions available today.

DAVID C. MAY Area president, West Tennessee, Regions Bank. B.B.A., Banking and Finance, University of Mississippi. Current board member, United Way of the Mid-South, Memphis Chamber of Commerce. Past board member, Leadership Memphis, Christ Methodist Day School, Service Over Self. Member, Economic Club of Memphis, Association for Financial Professionals. JOHNNY B. MOORE JR. President and CEO, SunTrust Bank, Memphis. B.B.A., Accounting, Rhodes College. Board member and chairman, Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission. Board member, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis Tomorrow, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis & Shelby County EDGE. Member, Board of Trustees, Rhodes College, Memphis University School, Hutchison School, New Memphis, Promise Academy, Plough Foundation. Member, ALSAC/St. Jude Advisory Board. W. SCOTT STAFFORD President, CEO, director, Evolve Bank & Trust. B.S., Commerce and Business, University of Alabama. Chairman, Board of Directors, Neighborhood Christian Centers. Board member and treasurer, Young Presidents’ Organization (Southern 7 Chapter). Board member, Presbyterian Day School. Member and ofﬁcer, Second Presbyterian Church. 2015 Inside Memphis Business CEO of the Year. Evolve a sponsor of Dixon Gallery & Gardens Art on Fire, Opera Memphis, Cooper-Young Festival. SUSAN S. STEPHENSON Co-founder, co-chairman, and president, Independent Bank. Former chairman, president, and CEO, Boatmen’s Bank of Tennessee. First female chairman and CEO of a Tennessee bank. Board member, St. Louis Federal Reserve. Member, Memphis Society of Entrepreneurs. Former chair, Executive Committee and Board, Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis, and New Memphis. Treasurer, Elmwood Foundation. Member, Baptist Women’s Hospital Advisory Board. WILLIAM R. TAYLOE President, Financial Federal Bank. Member, Financial Federal Board of Directors. B.A., University of Mississippi. Responsible for oversight and management of the bank as well as having an active role in business development, risk management, strategic planning. Bank focuses on high-quality customer service and customized solutions in private banking, mortgage banking, commercial banking. 26 |

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Banking: Commercial Lending

Money is the oil in the engine of business. Without it, the machine simply will not go. Thankfully, banks were invented to lend dollars to citizens wanting to better themselves and their community. These firms and POWER PLAYERS finance corporate office complexes, retail shopping centers, new subdivisions, or healthcare facilities. They handle mergers and acquisitions that keep our commerce humming. BECKY BOWERS Vice president, Private Banking, Evolve Bank & Trust. M.B.A., U of M; B.A., Lipscomb University; graduate, Southeastern School of Banking, Tennessee Bankers Association, Vanderbilt University. 24 years in banking in Memphis, last 5 years with Evolve Bank & Trust. Mentor, HopeWorks of Memphis. Former board president, Shelby County Education Foundation. JEFF CAMP Executive vice president, First Alliance Bank. Bachelor’s, Business Administration/Banking and Finance, Mississippi State University; graduate degree, Banking, Southern Methodist University. Bank is locally owned, state-chartered, opened in Cordova in 1999. Previously former leadership positions at M&F Bank, Deposit Guaranty National Bank, Union Planters National Bank. Former chair and member, Board of Trustees, Southeastern Commercial Lending School, Vanderbilt University. WRIGHT COX Community president, BankTennessee. B.B.A., Texas Christian; LSU Graduate School of Banking. 33 years’ experience in banking. Graduate, Rhodes College Executive Leadership Program. Elected to Collierville Municipal School Board, whose task is the founding of a school system for the town of Collierville. Past president and board member, Collierville Chamber of Commerce, Collierville Education Foundation. Recipient, C.H. Harrell Education Award. Elder, Hope Church. BLAKE ELLIOT Senior vice president, Commercial Banking Executive, Regions Bank. B.S., Samford University. 22 years commercial banking experience. Specialties include healthcare, transportation, logistics, technology, food and beverage, government and institutional banking, capital

markets. Board member, Leadership Memphis. Member, Economic Club. Former board member, Mid-South Association for Financial Professionals. Past president, The Phoenix Club. RICK HALL Executive vice president and senior Commercial Lender, Renasant Bank. B.B.A., University of Mississippi; M.B.A., Accounting, University of Texas; CPA-Inactive. 36 years’ experience in banking. Member, Lambda Alpha International, Economic Club of Memphis. Founder and former chairman, Westminster Academy. Board member, The Center for Western Studies. Board member, former vice chairman, Association of Classical and Christian Schools. Former Elder, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. STEVE HAWKINS Executive vice president, First Tennessee Bank. B.B.A., Finance, U of M. With bank for 38 years, current position since 2012. Wholesale line of business director for all commercial loan and treasury activities, including commercial, corporate, specialized lending, and deposit relationships. Has been married to wife, Claudia, for 43 years, with two children. First Tennessee offers full range of banking services and products. ROBERT MOREHEAD Senior vice president, Memphis Market, BancorpSouth. Bachelor’s, Rhodes College. In banking for 30 years. Responsible for all commercial operations in the Memphis market. Board member, PorterLeath. Advisory Board member, ALS Association (Tennessee Chapter). Involved with Greater Memphis Chamber, Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club of Memphis East. Former board member, Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School.

ANDY PIEROTTI Community president, Memphis, Commercial Bank & Trust Company. B.B.A., U of M; graduate, LSU Graduate School of Banking. In banking industry for 29 years, last 18 with CB&T. Formerly ran National Bank of Commerce private banking division. Alumni, New Memphis. WILLIAM H. POSEY III CEO and executive vice president, Greystone Servicing Corporation, Inc. B.A., Rhodes College. Responsible for Greystone’s Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae DUS Lending Platform, including affordable, seniors, small balance multifamily lending (largest such lender in nation). Former chairman and CEO, Univest Financial Services. Former member, Fannie Mae US Advisory Council. Elder, Hope Church. Board member, Bethany Christian Services, Banyan Group Foundation. Former member, Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth. FRANK STALLWORTH Senior vice president of commercial and multifamily financing, Pinnacle Bank. Responsible for all commercial and multifamily real estate lending activities, including placement of income property loans with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Member, Lambda Alpha International. Former member, Advisory Council, Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Seller/Servicer Council. Past president, Memphis Mortgage Bankers Association and Central Park Capital’s Western Division. Former director, Tennessee Mortgage Bankers Association. TOM STEPHENSON Executive vice president and chief credit officer, Independent Bank. B.S., UTKnoxville; Southwestern Graduate School of Banking, Southern Methodist University in Texas. More than 40 years’ experience in banking in Memphis, last 10 years at Independent Bank. Former board member, Partners in Public Education. Former president, American Cancer Society. RICHARD T. WOOD III Executive vice president and manager of Commercial/Multifamily Division, Financial Federal Bank. Involved in commercial lending 40 years, last 25 years at Financial Federal. Recipient, 2014 Lifetime Achievement “Titan” Award, Regional CCIM Chapter; 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, Memphis Chapter of Lambda Alpha International. Certified Mortgage Banker designation, Mortgage Bankers Association of America. Leads Financial Federal’s mortgage banking team in Memphis, Atlanta, Nashville offices. Division originates and services commercial mortgages for its life insurance company correspondents and CMBS lenders.

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Bioscience

Dating back at least to the start of the Plough Chemical Company in the early twentieth century and Abe Plough’s first product, Plough’s Antiseptic Healing Oil, the bioscience industry has been alive and well in Memphis. The Plough company turned into a giant and was joined by the likes of Richards Medical and the pioneering medicine of Neuton S. Stern, Willis C. Campbell, and John J. Shea Jr. The year 1962 saw another big bang when St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded. Today, the tradition of world-class bioscience not only lives on in the Bluff City — home to orthopedic titans, medical-research mavens, entrepreneurial dynamos, and sci-fi-sounding technologies — but is putting Memphis on the map in a huge, exploding field, thanks to the POWER PLAYERS on these pages. The future is indeed today. BOB BEAN CEO, YX Genomics Holding Corp. and its two companies. Transnetyx, co-founded in 2000 to build the ﬁrst fully automated genetic testing method to detect genetic mutations in mouse biopsies; research laboratories around the world. YX Services develops methods for companies seeking higher throughput and automated solutions to sample processing challenges. Named 2012 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business. JAMES BEATY Pediatric orthopaedic surgeon, Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics. M.D., UTHSC. Board certiﬁed, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Board chairman, The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Board member, Campbell Foundation, UT-Campbell Clinic. Former chief of staff, Campbell Clinic; Former Director, Pediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship. President of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Mid-America Orthopaedic Association, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. EDWARD CHAUM Plough Foundation professor of retinal diseases, director of research, Hamilton Eye Institute, UTHSC. M.D., Ph.D., Cornell University. Research Career Award, NIH. Senior Scientist Award from Research to Prevent Blindness. R&D 100 Award for the TRIAD Network from R&D Magazine. American Telemedicine Association Innovation Award for Hubble Telemedical. 2013 Innovation Award, Inside Memphis Business. Wheeley Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, serial entrepreneur.

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EUGENE ECKSTEIN Professor and chair of U of M Department of Biomedical Engineering. Initial and current academic coordinator, U of M-UTHSC Joint Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering. Inaugural J.R. Hyde Chair of Excellence, UTHSC. Fellow and past president, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Pi Tau Sigma, Sigma Xi. Member, BMES, EMBS, AAAS. Panel judge, Innovation Awards, Inside Memphis Business. KEVIN FOLEY Chairman and director of complex spine surgery, Semmes-Murphey Clinic. Director, Spine Fellowship Program, Department of Neurosurgery; Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, UTHSC. Medical director and chairman, Medical Education & Research Institute. M.D., UCLA. Member, AOA Honor Medical Society. Board member, BioD LLC, DiscGenics, TrueVision Systems. DOUG KING Senior vice president and president, Medtronic Spine, Biologics, Kyphon. Bachelor’s, Marketing and Business Administration, University of Oregon. Since joining the company in 1998, has held numerous sales and marketing leadership positions, including regional sales director, area vice president, vice president of spine and biologics sales, vice president of sales and marketing. Previously worked in various positions at Space Labs Medical, Stryker Endoscopy, U.S. Surgical.

RICHARD MAGID Vice president and director of technology transfer, UT Research Foundation. Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech. Since joining UTRF in 2006, has led out-licensing of UTHSC inventions and discoveries, including launch of numerous Tennessee-based startups. Creator and teacher, “Entrepreneurship for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences,” UTHSC. Registered U.S. patent agent. Board member, Life Science Tennessee. FRANK A. MCGREW III Director of cardiovascular research and clinical cardiologist, The Stern Cardiovascular Foundation. B.S., Johns Hopkins University; M.D., Case Western Reserve. Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine. Former scientific project officer, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Former governor, American College of Cardiology for Tennessee. Member, Joint Civilian Orientation Committee of the Department of Defense. Former president, English-Speaking Union. ROBERT PALMISANO President and CEO, Wright Medical Group, Inc. In current position since September 2011. B.A., Political Science, Providence College. Former president and CEO, ev3 Inc., a global endovascular device company acquired by Covidien in 2010. Former president and CEO, IntraLase Corp., MacroChem Corporation, Summit Technology Inc. Has held several positions at Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Member, Board of Trustees, Providence College.

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MARY V. RELLING Chair, Pharmaceutical Department, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Pharm.D. degree, University of Utah. Elected to Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Pediatric Cancer Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology; Team Science Prize, American Association of Cancer Research. Co-leader, NIH-funded Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium. Member, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Committee, Children’s Oncology Group. ISAAC RODRIGUEZ Co-founder, CEO, chief science officer, SweetBio Inc. B.S., University of Virginia; M.S. and Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University. “Top 40 Under 40” 2015, Memphis Business Journal. 2016 Innovation Awards winner, Inside Memphis Business. Named a “Top 10 Alumni,” VCU. Board member, Virginia Latino Higher Education Network. 2017 keynote speaker, NASA Langley’s Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration. Cofounder, VCU Latino Alumni Council. GARY STEVENSON Managing partner and co-founder, MB Venture Partners. B.S., Accounting, University of Missouri; M.B.A., Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University. CPA, Chartered Financial Analyst. Firm has invested in more than 40 medical-device and biotech startups, including 18 in Shelby County. Participated in financing GTx and BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. Board member, several current and former MBVP portfolio companies. Board member, ZeroTo510, Life Science Tennessee. ROBERT WILLIAMS President and chair, Department of Genetics, UTHSC; UT-ORNL governor’s chair in Genomics; B.A. and Ph.D., University of California; fellowship, Yale University. Developer of open access web sites for scientific discovery since 1994, including most prominently GeneNetwork, and new experimental methods and models to test how well we can predict disease risk just using genetic data. Numerous Medical Grant Awards.

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KEN WOODY President, Innova Memphis. Innova invests in and mentors early-stage medical device companies, biosciences, and technology companies. Has 36 equity investments and eight portfolio company board seats. Former U.S. Army Infantry Captain. Former vice president, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson. Moved to Memphis in 2004 as senior vice president, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics. Board member, FedEx Institute of Technology, Life Science Tennessee. T H E P O W E R P L AY E R S 2 0 1 8 | IN S ID E M EM P HI S B U S IN E S S .C O M |

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P L A Y E R S

Business Organizations

They encourage growth, development, economic prosperit y, and new opportunities. They’re forums for networking, exchanging views, educating the public, and uniting toward a common goal. Whether generalized or geared toward a specific interest or industry, these groups help make Memphis stronger, better, and more forward-thinking. Some member rosters boast the city’s movers and shakers, while others hone and shape the next generation who will lead Memphis and the Mid-South far into our future. Still others promote diversity, or they serve as a base to launch civic improvement projects. Whether or not you recognize the names, faces, or organizations, our city and region are better for these groups and for the POWER PLAYERS who lead and direct them. STEVEN J. BARES President/executive director, Memphis Bioworks Foundation. Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, M.B.A. Co-founder/board chair, Innova LLC, TriMetis. Co-founder, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering. Board member, Memphis Medical District Collaborative. Member, inaugural class, Leadership Tennessee. Former executive, International Paper, Hewlett-Packard. Former president/co-founder, Sparcom. Has authored nine patents, published numerous articles. JAN BOUTEN Partner, Innova Memphis. B.S., Software Engineering, Fontys University, Holland; M.Sc., Human Computer Systems, DeMontfort University, England; M.B.A., Duke. Investor in early stage startup companies, active leader in Memphis entrepreneurial ecosystem, recognized as a Wall Street Journal Startup Guru. More than 20 years of international business and investment experience. Board member, Memphis Shelby Growth Alliance, FedEx Institute of Technology, iScreen Vision, Quire, Restore Medical, Digitalsmiths. SCOTT A. BROCKMAN President and CEO, Memphis Shelby County Airport Authority. Accredited Airport Executive. Chairman, Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, American Association of Airport Executives; International Association of Airport Executives Board. Former president, Southeast Chapter of AAAE; chairman, 2011 AAAE National Airports Conference; chairman and Southeast chapter representative, AAAE Board of Examiners; chairman, AAAE Audit Committee; chairman, Airports Council International – North America Economic Affairs Committee, North America

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representative, ACI World Economic Board. AAAE Distinguished Service Award, May 2013. NANCY COFFEE President and CEO, New Memphis. B.A., Dartmouth; M.A., University of Chicago. Featured on cover of Newsweek as face of “generation Global.” Named to “Top 40 Under 40” and 2012 “Super Women in Business,” Memphis Business Journal. Board member, Greater Memphis Chamber, Fogelman College of Business & Economics, New Leaders, People First Partnership. Community Advisory Board member, Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum. PEARSON CRUTCHER Executive director, The Society of Entrepreneurs. B.S. and master’s, Social Work, UT-Knoxville. Caters to Mid-South business owners, presidents, and other key executives through programs such as monthly Entrepreneurs Roundtable meetings, the Insights Group, and the Annual Dinner and Award Banquet. Named to “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Graduate, Leadership Memphis. Founders Committee, UT/West Institute for Cancer Research. Volunteer, Team READ. REID DULBERGER President and CEO, Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) for Memphis and Shelby County. M.S., Carnegie Mellon; M.A., Georgetown University. Organizational responsibilities include business ﬁnancing programs and tax incentive programs such as Foreign Trade Zone-77, PILOTs, TIFs; along with Greater Memphis Alliance for a

Competitive Workforce and the International Port of Memphis. Chief economic development officer, Memphis and Shelby County. Former vice president, MemphisED Administration, Greater Memphis Chamber. Certified Economic Developer and Economic Development Finance Professional. GWYN R. FISHER Greater Memphis regional director of economic and community development, State of Tennessee. Founder and CEO, Revolution Strategy. B.A., Scripps College; J.D., U of M. Former executive director, MPACT Memphis. Contributing Author, Smart City Memphis. Named to “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Participant in British Council Transatlantic Network. Program coordinator, Marshall Memorial Fellowship. Former chair, Mayor Mark Luttrell’s YP Collaborative. DON GLAYS Executive director, West Tennessee Home Builders Association. B.B.A., Diploma of Renewable Resources Technology. Hosts VESTA Home Shows. Organization is largest local home builders’ association in Tennessee. Member, several local chambers of commerce, MLGW Community Advisory Council. Serves on Land Use Committee, Executive Officers Council, National Association of Home Builders. JOHN E. GNUSCHKE Director, Sparks Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Center for Manpower Studies. Professor, Economics, U of M. Director, Applied Information Technology Center. Codirector, Center for Real Estate Research. B.S., Utah State; Ph.D. and M.A., University of Missouri at Columbia. Former president, Association for University Business and Economic Research. Joined U of M’s Millionaire’s Research Team for receiving more than $1 million in research grants for 15 straight years. ANGELA GRAI Association executive, Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) of Memphis. Attended U of M, Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management. Organization offers education and

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networking opportunities to local Commercial Real Estate professionals. Attends BOMA International’s Annual Issues Conference in Washington, D.C. Visits congressional delegation to advocate interests of commercial real estate industry in Memphis. RANDY HUTCHINSON President and CEO, Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South. B.A., Western Maryland College; M.B.A., Wilmington College. Organization represents 3,800 BBB Accredited Business members. Provides more than 1.2 million reports on Mid-South businesses annually to consumers wanting to deal with reputable businesses. Educates consumers on how to avoid scams. Member, Rotary Club of Memphis. Graduate, Leadership Memphis. Member, Board of Trustees, Concord Academy.

Giving for Growth. Forbes contributor. Producer and host of ChangeMakers podcast, The SPARK, The SPARK Awards on WKNO-TV, cityCURRENT radio show across the Cumulus Media Memphis network. LINN SITLER Memphis & Shelby County Film Commissioner. Led Memphis recruitment team to bring CMT’s Sun Records to city. 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 led successful efforts for Memphis’ selection as “Top 10 Best Cities to Live and Work as a Moviemaker.” Named Memphis “Legend” 2016, Women’s Foundation. One of 50 film commissioners to earn certification from Association of Film Commissioners International. Board member, U of M College of Communication and Fine Arts. Beale Street Note Committee. Member, Tennessee Women’s Forum. Longest serving film commissioner in the world.

ERIC MATHEWS Founder and CEO, Start Co.; B.S., Chemistry, Rhodes College; M.S., Cognitive Science, U of M. Longtime advocate and builder of high-growth potential tech startups in region. Architect of regional startup economy. Early stage startup investor. Creates culture of entrepreneurship, engages community leaders and investors in economic change, develops portfolio of startup companies. Former interim executive director, Emerge Memphis. Former associate director, FedEx Institute of Technology.

LESLIE LYNN SMITH President and CEO, Epicenter, regional entrepreneurship hub. Drives strategy and measures impact among a partner network, connects entrepreneurs to resources to create an inclusive, growing economy. National entrepreneurial ecosystem thought leader. Board member, Center for American Entrepreneurship, InBIA, Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis, New Memphis. Former CEO, TechTown Detroit, a business accelerator and incubator.

TOMMY PACELLO President, Memphis Medical District Collaborative. J.D., U of M. MCRP, U of M School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. Attorney and city planner. Directs strategy, development, activation of the Memphis Medical District Collaborative on behalf of its eight healthcare and educational anchor institutions. Named Top 40 Real Estate Professionals under age of 40, Urban Land magazine. Vice chair, Memphis Chapter of Urban Land Institute.

DAVID J. SPANN Director, U.S. Dept. of Commerce/U.S. Commercial Service/Memphis USEAC. B.A., Arkansas State University; J.D., University of Arkansas; MPA ABT, University of Arkansas. Ten years in current position, 30 years with U.S. Commercial Service. Recipient, Director General’s Star Award (2009), Outstanding Performance Award (2014). Arkansas Bar/Attorney’s License. Executive Secretary, West Tennessee District Export Council.

JEREMY C. PARK President, cityCURRENT; member of LLC, Lipscomb & Pitts Insurance. cityCURRENT is a privately funded catalyst, hosting over 150 free community events annually, along with an array of media and philanthropic initiatives. Author, “Giving Back” column in The Commercial Appeal; and books, Giving Back with Purpose and

BLAIR TAYLOR President, Memphis Tomorrow. B.A., Connecticut College; M.B.A. and M.S.W., Columbia University. Memphis Tomorrow is an association of CEOs of Memphis’ largest enterprises. Mission is to engage these leaders and the resources of their companies to help advance prosperity and quality of life for all Memphians.

PHIL TRENARY President and CEO, Greater Memphis Chamber, the primary economic development agency for City of Memphis/Shelby County. B.S., Oklahoma State University. Oversaw retention of ServiceMaster headquarters, St. Jude expansion, passage of Improve Act to fund infrastructure, and more. Airline CEO of the Year; Airline Strategist of the Year; Pro-pilot Airline of the Year and Teamwork Award. Member, Management Advisory Council, U.S. Secretary of Transportation; FAA Administrator. Board member, Memphis Tomorrow, New Memphis. LAURIE TUCKER Executive director, Economic Club of Memphis. Co-Founded Calade Partners, a strategy and marketing consultancy. Former senior vice president of marketing, FedEx Services, where she successfully led rebranding initiatives and critical go-to-market strategies. University of Memphis Board of Visitors. Board Member, Regional One Health Extended Care Hospital and Alliance Data Systems. DAVID WILLIAMS President and CEO, Leadership Memphis. B.A., Journalism, U of M; M.B.A., University of Colorado at Denver. Organization prepares and mobilizes leaders to work together for the good of the whole community. Offers Executive Program for senior leaders, FastTrack Program for emerging leaders. Action Initiatives include Volunteer Memphis, Graduate Memphis. Board of Trustees, Memphis Public Library. ROBY S. WILLIAMS CEO, Black Business Association of Memphis. B.A., History, LeMoyne-Owen College. Has been with organization since 2002. Assists minority and women business owners to achieve success in their business operations. Formerly employed in Branch Division, Commercial and Retail Lending, and Marketing Division, First Tennessee Bank. Formerly employed in Business Marketing for South Central Bell and AT&T in Memphis. Works to be an “opportunity facilitator.”

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Certified Public Accountants

Keeping our money straight can be a terrifying prospect to many people — the meticulous attention to detail required can be daunting, to say the least. And if we’re not careful enough, we can face an audit, and nobody wants that headache. But soaring in like the Batman of bookkeeping to save us all from financial misadventures are Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), those fearless heroes who know more about financial law than most can dream of. W hether providing ser vices for individuals, organizations, or certain types of businesses, or working exclusively for a corporation, these POWER PLAYERS can operate in virtually any area of finance — from estate or financial planning, to auditing or income tax services, to venture capitalism. Cool. GREGORY E. BARNES Managing Partner, Memphis ofﬁce, KPMG, LLP. B.B.A., Accounting and Economics; M.S., Finance, U of M. Graduate, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business Executive Development Program. Certiﬁed Public Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst. Advisory board chair, U of M School of Accountancy. Advisory board member, U of M Fogelman College of Business and Economics. Board member, Greater Memphis Chamber. Member, Leadership Memphis.

J. EUSTIS CORRIGAN, JR. Senior managing director & shareholder, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. B.S., Accounting, LSU. Provides strategic business, tax advisory services to large local public and privately owned companies. CPA licensed in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana. Member, AICPA, AICPA Tax Section, Society of Louisiana CPAs. Chairman’s Circle, Economic Club of Memphis. St. Jude Volunteer. LDI Graduate, New Memphis.

JUD CANNON CEO, Cannon Wright Blount. Bachelor of Business Administration, U of M. Started company with Doug Wright and Richard Blount more than 15 years ago, offering business, software, outsourcing solutions for clients beyond general accounting services. Firm offers tax and audit services, technology, accounting, and consulting solutions. Professional concentrations include healthcare, business improvement, outsourcing.

DAVID L. CUICCHI Managing director and tax director, Cannon & Company CPAs, P.C. B.B.A., J.D., University of Mississippi. Certiﬁed Public Accountant. Firm offers full array of accounting, tax, consulting services to individuals and businesses. Past president, Estate Planning Council, Memphis Chapter of Tennessee Society of CPAs, Germantown Charity Horse Show. Past treasurer, Memphis Rotary Club Longtime Rotary Reader for elementary students. Treasurer, World Cataract Foundation.

P. ANTHONY CLARK Market managing partner, Memphis/ Dallas-Fort Worth, DHG. Bachelor of Accountancy, University of Mississippi. Industry leader for ﬁrm’s Hospitality and Resorts practice. Serves clients in construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, distribution. Member, Advisory Council, University of Mississippi Patterson School of Accountancy. Chairman’s Circle, Greater Memphis Chamber. Member, American Institute of CPAs, Tennessee, Florida Society of CPAs.

VINCE DEGUTIS Ofﬁce managing partner and Tennessee tax managing partner, Deloitte LLP. 33 years of experience in professional services. Serves as tax or advisory partner for publicly held, privately owned, domestic, international companies. M.S., B.B.A., U of M. Board member, Brooks Museum. Advisory board member, U of M School of Accountancy. Advisory board member, UTHSC College of Medicine. Member, American Institute of CPAs, Tennessee Society of CPAs, Massachusetts Society of CPAs.

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DAVID L. DELBROCCO Owner, DelBrocco & Associates. B.B.A., U of M. Member, Tennessee Society of CPAs, American Institute of CPAs. Owned company since 1990. Firm serves manufacturing, distribution, real estate, nonprofit companies throughout Mid-South. Chapter chairman, March of Dimes, Crossroad Music Exposition. Past treasurer, Leadership Memphis. RANDAL L. GREGORY Managing Partner, Fouts & Morgan, CPAs, P.C. B.A., Mississippi University for Women. Member, American Institute of CPAs, Tennessee Society of CPAs. Member, Associated Builders and Contractors Inc., West Tennessee Home Builders Association. With firm since 1991, serving clients in construction, home building, nonprofit organizations, professional service businesses. Experienced in tax and audit, partner in charge of marketing. Oversees firm’s staff of over 30 professionals, paraprofessionals, support personnel. Firm is a member of CPAmerica International. JOHN M. GRIESBECK Managing member, Reynolds, Bone & Griesbeck PLC. Graduate, U of M. With firm more than 35 years. Member, past chairman, current personnel committee chairman, Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants. Past chairman, Allinial Global, Inc. Member, American Institute of CPAs, Christian Brothers High School Hall of Fame. Director, Truth Seekers Fellowship, Worldshine USA. JOHN D. IVY JR. President, Frazee Ivy Davis, PLC. Oversees management of 30-person firm. With partners Jerry Davis, Jim Dilley, and Alex Ivy, the company focuses on auditing, tax, and valuation matters for owner-managed enterprises in various industries. Member, Tennessee Society of CPAs and American Institute of CPAs. Board Member, Second Presbyterian Church Foundation and Trezevant Episcopal Home. Member, EDGE Finance Committee. J. KENNETH (CHIP) MARSTON JR. CEO and founder, The Marston Group, PLC. Focuses on advisory, tax, transactional financial reporting, entrepreneurial ventures. Advisor to several companies, families, trusts, foundations. Trustee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, DGG Endowment Board. Nexus: Mentor – Class of 2011; Rotary Club of Memphis East, Paul Harris Fellow; past vice chairman/board member, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis; U of M School of Accountancy-Advisory Board.

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KEVIN MCADAMS Office managing shareholder, Memphis Office, Elliott Davis Decosimo. Joined firm in 2005. More than 20 years of experience in tax planning, compliance, consulting. Responsible for administration, daily operations, organization of office. Firm founded in 1925. Has more than 750 professionals located in offices in four states. Elliott Davis Decosimo is one of the Top 30 accounting, tax, consulting firms in the United States. B. ROBERT PAYNE President and managing partner, Brundige, Payne & Company, PC. Co-founded firm in 1977, providing accounting, tax, consultation services. Former member, Advisory Board, U of M School of Accountancy. Charter member, former officer, Germantown and Whitehaven Rotary Clubs. Former board member, Evangelical Christian School. Member, American Institute of CPAs. Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow. Elder, First Evangelical Church. MIKE SKINNER Partner in charge, HORNE Cyber. B.A., M.A., University of Mississippi. Provides information technology audit, regulatory compliance, information security consulting, internal control consulting, business solution implementation. Over five years with the firm, over ten with regional and local firms. Affiliations include American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists, Institute of Internal Auditors. JEFFREY L. THOMASON Chief Manager - Watkins Uiberall, PLLC Graduate, University of Alabama. Joined firm in 1990. Provides leadership while guiding the strategic direction of the firm. Continues to serve as a trusted advisor to the firm’s clients. Firm founded in 1971. Has over 75 employees in Memphis and Tupelo offices. Has become the largest locally owned CPA firm in Memphis. RICHARD WRIGHT Managing Partner – Memphis, Ernst & Young. Graduate, Christian Brothers University. With firm for 25 years providing audit and other services to a clients in the manufacturing, distribution, retail, transportation industries. Board member, treasurer, United Way of the Mid-South. Member, American Institute of CPAs. Manages EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year program in the Memphis market.

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CEOs and Leaders

Every Memphian has an investment in our city. Our endeavors help to steer the growth of our community. A few corporate giants make an impact here and well beyond. You’ll find these titans and the numbers by which they’re measured on the stock exchange. The individuals must guide their companies across the perilous seas of business health and stockholder happiness. And not only are their names connected to Memphis by investors and business insiders worldwide, but they are often the names behind civic ventures that help make our city complete. Through strategic direction and day-to-day operations, these POWER PLAYERS help their companies hit their marks. Own a share in these firms and you own a share in the future of Memphis. SCOTT BARBER Regional President, Caesars MidSouth including Horseshoe and Tunica Roadhouse, Mississippi and two Harrah’s North Carolina properties managed for the Cherokee Tribe. M.B.A., University of North Carolina. Implemented numerous creative and successful business endeavors within the Mid-South’s gaming markets, becoming an integral part of the community by reinvesting his time in local nonproﬁt organizations including The American Cancer Society, The American Heart Association, United Way. Board member, AutoZone Liberty Bowl, United Way, Tunica Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.

ROBERT B. CARTER Executive vice president, FedEx Information Services, and chief information ofﬁcer, FedEx Corporation. Member of ﬁve-person executive Committee, which plans and executes corporation’s strategic business activities. Responsible for setting technology direction of FedEx applications, infrastructure, networks, data centers providing global support for products. More than 30 years of systems development, implementation experience.

Chairman, President, and CEO, Orgill, Inc. Graduate, Georgia Tech, M.B.A., University of North Florida. Former U.S. Army Field Artillery Ofﬁcer. Joined Orgill in 1985 as general manager of the Hardware Division. Became president and CEO in 2005; elected Chairman 2013. Served on numerous industry boards, including president of the International Hardware Distributors Association. Recently inducted into Home Channel Hall of Fame.

ANDY CATES Founder, general partner, and CEO of RVC Outdoor Destinations, country’s leading provider of high-quality outdoor vacation properties. B.B.A. (Finance), University of Texas, Austin. Member, Lambda Alpha International. Founding partner, Viceroy Investments, LLC in Dallas; Value Acquisition Fund in Memphis. Project developer and board chairman, Soulsville Revitalization Project. In 2000, worked with pursuit team to attract Grizzlies to Memphis and get support for the FedExForum. Member of original Grizzlies ownership group. Former board member, Pioneer Natural Resources, Myelin Repair Foundation.

H. ERIC BOLTON JR. Chairman and CEO, MAA. Bachelor’s, Accounting; M.B.A., Finance and Real Estate. Named 2007 Distinguished Alumni, U of M Fogelman College of Business & Economics, 2001 Multifamily Executive of the Year. Board member, EastGroup Properties, Inc. (NYSE: EGP). Member, Advisory Board of Governors, National Association of REITs.

GREGORY CHRISTOPHER Chairman and CEO, Mueller Industries, Inc., a multinational corporation involved in the manufacture, distribution, and sales of copper, brass, and other metal products for a variety of industries. Bachelor’s degree in engineering, University of Buffalo, and graduate degrees in business from the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Business School. Joined Mueller in 1992 and served as VP

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packaging operations where he helped run company’s operations in seven countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa. Later, senior vice president of industrial packaging. Returned to the U.S in 2005 as vice president of corporate strategic planning. PAULO TEIXEIRA Global CEO, The Juice Plus+ Company. Former CFO, The Bryce Company. Born, raised, educated in Sao Paulo, Brazil (as a chemical engineer, M.B.A.). Moved to Memphis in 1989 and now describes himself as a “Memphian born somewhere else.” Board member, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Mid-South American Heart Association, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, Regional One Health Foundation, The Juice Plus+ Foundation. Married to Priscilla and father of Lucas. Enjoys tennis, ﬁshing, reading, aeroponic gardening. NIKHIL VARTY CEO and director, ServiceMaster. Appointed to role in summer 2017. B.S., Financial Accounting and Management; M.S., General Management, Bombay University, Mumbia, India. M.B.A., University of Scranton. Former vice president of mergers and acquisitions, president of the Americas, WABCO. Extensive business experience leading large companies with roles at Honeywell International, Pricewaterhousecoopers. JEFFREY WARNE President and CEO, Perkins & Marie Callendar’s, LLC. Bachelor’s, St. Cloud State University; M.B.A., University of Chicago. Former chief executive, O’Charley’s Inc.; president and COO, Pick Up Stix; executive vice president and COO, TGI Friday’s International; CFO, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide.

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Chief Financial Officers

If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that a dependable Chief Financial Officer is the cornerstone of any corporation. A CFO must be trustworthy, a straight-shooter, anchored by experience but with a sharp eye out for new opportunities. Without the backing of a strong CFO, a corporation can fall prey to any number of pitfalls. But it’s not just about the for-profit sector — CFOs are also responsible for nonprofits and the donations given to them in good faith. Nonprofits could not survive without CFO know-how to maximize the effectiveness of funding for their cause. The POWER PLAYERS listed here are smart, savvy, solvent, and most importantly, they are behind some of the biggest names in Memphis business. These individuals ensure its financial footing is solid as a rock. DAVID L. DUNAVANT CFO, Monogram Food Solutions. B.B.A. and M.B.A., U of M. Certified Public Accountant. Responsible for all aspects of company’s finance, treasury, accounting, information technology, M&A, financial planning activities. Former board member, YMCA, Leadership Memphis, The Family Link. WILLIAM (BILL) T. GILES CFO and executive vice president, Finance, Information Technology, ALLDATA, Customer Satisfaction, AutoZone. B.S., Accounting and Management, Alfred University. Named a top 25 CFO of public companies in U.S. in 2012, The Wall Street Journal; 2010 CFO of the Year, Memphis Business Journal. Certified Public Accountant. Board member, Brinker International, AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Lausanne Collegiate School, Youth Villages. ALAN B. GRAF JR. Executive vice president and CFO, FedEx Corporation. M.B.A., Indiana University, where he is a member of the Academy of Alumni Fellows. Responsibilities include all aspects of FedEx Corporation’s global financial functions. Board Member, NIKE, Inc., Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. Trustee, University of Memphis. BILL GRIFFIN Executive vice president and CFO, Baptist Memorial Health Care. Bachelor of Accountancy, University of Mississippi. Certified Public Accountant; chartered global management accountant. Fellow, Healthcare Financial 38 |

Management Association; HFMA-certified healthcare financial professional. Board member, Christ Community Health Services, Medical Education Research Institute, Mississippi True. GLENN R. LANDAU Senior vice president and CFO, International Paper. Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University. Has worked at the company since 1991, holding positions with increasing responsibility within the U.S. container and European container business. Named CFO in 2017. JASON LEE Executive vice president and CFO, Orion Federal Credit Union. B.B.A., Finance, Texas Tech University; Executive M.B.A., U of M. Provides overall strategic direction and strategy for Orion. Chairman, Memphis Executive M.B.A. Alumni Advisory Council. Board member, RISE Memphis. Member, ConnectFSS Innovation Committee. Served on U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Credit Union Advisory Council. WILLIAM C. LOSCH III Executive vice president and CFO, First Horizon National Corporation. B.S., Business Administration, University of Richmond; M.B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University. Leads the corporation’s financial activities including treasury, accounting, controls, tax, financial planning, strategic planning. Chairman, Dixon Finance & Audit Committee. Treasurer, Dixon Board of Trustees. Board member, First Tennessee Foundation.

CHRIS MCLEAN Executive vice president of finance, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. In position since 2001. B.S., Accounting, Christian Brothers University; M.B.A., U of M. Began Methodist career in 1984 in corporate finance. Has worked for several health systems in East Tennessee. Previously vice president of Methodist’s Mississippi division. Member, Tennessee Society of CPAs, Healthcare Financial Management Association. Board member, Wesley Housing and Health Choice. JEFFREY PEARSON CFO, ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Holds degree in accounting, U of M. Certified Public Accountant. With ALSAC for 20 years; in current position since 2006. Former chairman, Evangelical Christian School. Finalist, 2010 CFO of the Year Award, Memphis Business Journal. Married to wife, Mindy, with two children, Hannah and David. FRANK REID CFO, Duncan-Williams Inc. Graduate of CBU. Certified Public Accountant. Oversaw transition to the Pershing system while maintaining independence as a fully computing FINRA member. Created an in-house, self-directed 401(k) plan for employees with no outside administration costs. Licensed Financial & Operations Principal; General Securities Principal; Registered Options Principal; General Securities Representative. RICK WAGERS Senior executive vice president and CFO, Regional One. Oversees finance, materials management, security, engineering, facilities development, safety, revenue cycle. Alumni, Leadership Memphis. Member, Health Financial Management Association Solutions Group. Recipient, 2012 CFO of the Year, Memphis Business Journal. 2015 Senior Executive Meritorious Service Award, Tennessee Hospital Association. JIMMIE D. WILLIAMS CFO and senior vice president, Belz Enterprises. B.S., Accounting, UTMartin. Company one of the largest commercial and industrial developers in the South. U.S. Army Officer Training School, Finance Corps. Board member, ArtsMemphis, Repairing the Breach. Member, Board of Trustees and Development Committee, MidAmerica Baptist Theological Seminary. Chairman, MidAmerica Student Housing, Inc. Member, Lambda Alpha International, American Institute of CPAs.

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Chief Operating Officers

What good is a pilot without a co-pilot? Or a ship without a fi rst mate? The same is true of the relationship between companies and their Chief Operating Officers (sometimes called Chief Operations Officers). These POWER PLAYERS hold a crucial role in the way their companies run on a daily basis and how they meet the long-term goals of the company. They put the “organization” in any organization. This isn’t a uniform bunch: The role of a Chief Operating Officer in the company depends upon the company, and upon the chief executive with whom they work. Their decisions affect not only their businesses but the community as well. Chief Operating Officers drive the businesses that drive the Memphis economy, and this selection of outstanding professionals is proof. KENNARD BROWN Executive vice chancellor and COO, UTHSC. Assistant professor, College of Pharmacy; Department of Surgery, College of Medicine; chief administrative officer, UTHSC campus. Ph.D., Health Science Administration, UTHSC; J.D., U of M. Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives. Previous director, Office of Equity and Diversity, Office of Employee Relations, Center on Health Disparities.

DON CLANTON COO, Duncan-Williams, Inc. Former executive vice president, debt capital markets, Duncan-Williams. Former member, FINRA’s Business Conduct Board. Member, Bond Dealers of America. Former president, Memphis Investment Bankers Association, Commerce Investment Corporation. Former head, Union Planters Investment Bankers Group, which under his leadership grew to one of the Southeast’s leading brokerage and investment banks.

DAVID BRONCZEK President and COO, FedEx Corporation. Graduate, Kent State University. Member, Senior Management Committee, FedEx Corporation. Appointed to National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Member, Board of Governors, International Air Transport Association, National Safe Kids Campaign. Board member, Airlines for America, International Paper, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Member, Memphis Tomorrow.

PAUL DEPRIEST Executive vice president and COO, Baptist Memorial Health Care. B.S., Eastern Kentucky University; M.D., University of Kentucky College of Medicine; completed residency in obstetrics and gynecology, fellowship in gynecological oncology at University of Kentucky Medical Center. Master’s, healthcare management, Harvard School of Public Health. Named one of the ﬁve “Top Doctors for Women” in the South by Women’s Health magazine. Board member, MERI (Medical Education and Research Institute), Select Health Alliance.

DON BRUNSON COO and secretary, Monogram Food Solutions. B.B.A., Emory University; M.B.A., Georgia Southern. Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy (Retired). Board member, Community Coffee Company. Former board member, Memphis Family Shelter. The company produces value-added meats including the brands it owns, such as King Cotton, Circle B, Hannah’s, Farmer’s Pride, Wild Bill’s, Hickory’s Best. Licenses brands such as Johnsonville, Butterball, Bass Pro Shops Uncle Buck’s, Team RealTree, private labels.

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MIKE EDWARDS President, COO, and board member, Paragon Bank. B.A., Political Science, Rhodes College. Attended Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at SMU, Barret School of Banking at U of M. More than 30 years’ experience in banking and ﬁnancial services. Board member, Orpheum Theatre, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, United Way of the Mid-South. Past chair, Germantown Industrial Development Board, Germantown Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Germantown, Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

THOMAS L. GRIMES JR. Executive vice president and COO, Mid-America Apartment Communities. B.A., Emory University; M.B.A., U of M. Oversees company’s portfolio of approximately 80,000 apartment units located in 15 states. Leads company’s Property Management and Asset Management Divisions. Named to “Top 40 Under 40 National Industry Up and Comers,” Multifamily Executive Magazine. Board member, Urban Land Institute, Soulsville Foundation, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. MARK HALPERIN Executive vice president and COO, Boyle Investment Company. Appointee, EDGE for Memphis and Shelby County. Founding board member, Triumph Bank. Named 2008 Commercial Broker of the Year, Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council; 2012 Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, Memphis Chapter of Association of Fundraising Professionals. Recipient, 2008 Realtors Commercial Alliance National Award, National Association of Realtors, Commercial Division. RICHARD W. MCDUFFIE COO, Dunavant Global Logistics Group. More than 25 years experience with global Logistics and Supply Chain with speciﬁc industry experience in automotive, specialty retail, consumer products, agricultural commodities. Past eight years, has provided vision and leadership in building Dunavant’s logistics division into a recognized global logistics service provider. Former vice

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DAVID T. POPWELL President and COO, First Tennessee Bank. B.S., University of Alabama; J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law; LL.M., NYU School of Law. Responsible for all aspects of banking for Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp. Former chairman, president, CEO, SunTrust bank in Memphis; executive vice president, National Commerce Financial Corp.; Shareholder, responsible for mergers and acquisitions practice group, Baker Donelson et al. CHRISTINE D. “CHRIS” RICHARDS Executive vice president and COO, EdR Collegiate Housing. B.A., Education, U of M. Oversees operations of owned and joint-venture collegiate housing portfolio along with directing management services division. Former vice president of operations, regional director, EdR. Member, National Apartment Association’s Student Housing Committee. Member, Institute of Real Estate Management. Certiﬁed Property Manager.

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EARL WILLIAMS JR. COO and CFO, Loeb Properties. Works with heads of Asset Management, Brokerage and Development; responsible for all internal and external financial statement reporting, management information systems, employee benefit programs, risk management programs, tax planning, compliance, along with long-term financial planning for all Loeb-related entities. Former district council chair, Urban Land Institute; Board member and past board chair, Memphis Leadership Foundation. Board member, Leadership Empowerment Center. Member, Lambda Alpha Real Estate Fraternity. Licensed CPA.

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If you’re in business, you need insurance. Large and small companies need protection from the insurmountable costs property damage, debt, lawsuits, and theft can create. Commercial insurers must be able to take both a macro and micro view of the company they’re representing. The POWER PLAYERS in this category are savvy in risk management, strategic retail or wholesale insurance, property and casualty, and warehousing or manufacturing risk, to name just a few areas. Helping clients take a business to market, manage risk, consult them on claims, and address larger issues in the industry are all of premium importance. Servicing day-to-day needs is just as crucial to a successful relationship. Everyone experiences misfortune at some point, and when that happens, commercial insurance is there to save you. JOHN D. CROW CEO and founder, Crow Friedman Group, a Risk Strategies Company. Offices in Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, Atlanta. Specializes in risk management and loss prevention programs for architects, engineers, health, legal, financial professionals. Speaker and risk management consultant. Involved in continuing education for professional affiliates and construction-related organizations. Charter and board member, Professional Liability Agents Network. LARRY E. CRUM President/Agent, Larry E. Crum & Associates. Began career with Nationwide Insurance in an apartment and grew to one of the largest Nationwide Insurance agencies in the U.S. Inducted into Nationwide Insurance Hall of Fame and consistently an All-Star Agent, the top 12 agencies. Staff of 40 licensed agents in nine offices (including a Vietnamese and a Hispanic office) in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri. Agency licensed in 37 states. Portfolio diversified with 60 percent personal lines, 30 percent commercial lines, and 10 percent in financials. CINDI GRESHAM President, Boyle Insurance Agency, Inc. Provides insurance for all lines of personal and business needs including industry programs for senior care, professional liability, contractors, apartments and condominiums, nonprofit organizations. Certified Insurance Counselor. Past president, Insurors of Tennessee, Insurors of Memphis. Member, SecureRisk, Professional Insurance Association, Insurors of Tennessee. Member, MTSU Insurance Hall of Fame Committee. Former chairman, Customer Service Representative Council, CNA customer service council. Former member, State Auto Agents Council.

JEFFERY S. HALL President, McDonnell Insurance. Specializes in large commercial and group employee beneﬁts with a focus on warehousing, contracting, transportation. Manages company’s production staff and marketing. In business since 1919, company provides business/commercial insurance, personal insurance, bonds, health and life insurance. Member and former president, Insurors of Memphis. Former board member, Insurors of Tennessee. Former trustee, Evangelical Christian School. MARK E. HARRIS Principal, Harris, Madden, Powell, Stallings & Brown, Inc. B.A., Emory University; J.D., U of M. Expertise in heavy casualty, construction, surety, management liability, logistics, manufacturing risk. Active in developing alternative risk solutions including captives shared risk programs. Former director, Insurors of Memphis. Former president, West Tennessee Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors, Collierville Chamber of Commerce. Member, Specialized Carriers and Riggers Association. Top status, Amerisure agent, Travelers Leadership Council. W. JOSEPH LAMMEL Executive vice president, Lockton Memphis. Specializes in transportation, construction, surety, ﬁnancial risk. B.B.A., Risk Management, U of M. Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation, American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters. Board member, Mid-South Regional Blood Center. Board president, SRPA. Past board member, The Memphis Development Foundation, The Orpheum Theatre, St. Agnes Academy.

S. EUGENE MATHIS JR. CEO, Menard, Gates & Mathis, Inc. Principal, Insight Risk Management, LLC. Surety bonding, contractors’ insurance, workers compensation, general liability, employee benefits, inland marine coverages. Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter, Associate in Risk Management. Adjunct professor, U of M. Former president, Memphis Chapter, Society of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters, Builders Exchange of Memphis. Sponsor, Fire Museum of Memphis. JEFF MICHAEL Vice president, Clay & Land Insurance, Inc. B.S.,Business, U of M. Joined father, Mike Michael, at Michael Insurance Agency in 1975. Merged with Clay & Land Insurance in 1982. Firm is a full-service, independent, and family owned agency providing all lines of insurance. Services include professional liability, property, general liability. Member, Central Board, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Inc. Lifelong member, St. John’s Methodist Church. DALE MORRIS Owner and principal, Morris & Associates. B.A., Hampden-Sydney College. Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and Past President, Memphis Chapter. Associate in Risk Management. Past chairman, Memphis and Shelby County Insurance Advisory Committee, Greater Memphis Insurance Council. Former president, Windyke Country Club Board of Directors. Co-Sponsor, Child Advocacy Center’s Annual Works of Heart Art Auction & Exhibit. STEPHEN L. OSEMAN President and owner, Oseman Insurance Agency. Graduate, University of the South. Formed agency in 1985 and has grown the business to one of the largest independent agencies in Tennessee with 16 employees. Offices in Memphis and Jackson, Mississippi, specializing in the automotive industry, healthcare P&C, education, social services, entertainment, transportation. Licensed in almost every state. Member, Insurors of Tennessee, Insurors of Memphis. Founding member, R.L. White Dead Welders Society. KENNETH DAVID PAYLOR CEO and president, USI of Tennessee, Inc. Master of Business Administration, U of M, with concentration in management. Accountable for executive management and handling large risk management programs. More than 200 offices in the U.S. Certified Insurance Counselor, Associate in Risk Management. Received Certificate of Achievement for Advanced Consultancy Practice I. Former board member, Sister Ruth Ann Center.

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JOHN ROBERT PITTS Partner and owner, Lipscomb and Pitts Insurance, LLC. B.S., University of Tennessee. With partner Mat Lipscomb III, majority owner of largest locally owned insurance agency in the Mid-South. Board member, Youth Villages, Boy Scouts, Insurors of Tennessee Large Agency Committee, Governor Haslam’s Tennessee Business Partnership. Board member, Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers. Active in Carnival Memphis. President’s Club member, University of Tennessee.

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KIRK RIGGINS Partner, Page, Chafﬁn & Riggins Insurance. B.S., Economics, with minor in Business, UT-Knoxville. Agency is very hands-on in dealing mainly with Main Street America business. Licenses in multiple states. Holds Certiﬁed Insurance Counselor Designation. Served on many trade, community, private boards and committees. Member, Insurors of Tennessee.

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BRAD V. SMITH President, Smith-Berclair Insurance. Former president, Cecil Smith Insurance. Purchased Berclair Insurance Center and merged two companies into Smith-Berclair Insurance. Board member, Liberty Bowl, Trusted Choice. NCAA Division I college football official. Former president, Insurors of Memphis, Insurors of Tennessee. Tennessee member, national Board of Directors, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America. Elder, Grace Evangelical Church. DAVE THOMAS CEO, Kemmons Wilson Insurance Group since April 2016. B.S., Computer Science. Forty-year veteran in the insurance marketplace. Kemmons Wilson Insurance Group founded in 1952 alongside Holiday Inn and remains family owned. With offices in Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis, Little Rock, Birmingham, Jackson and Destin, the group offers risk mitigation expertise in commercial, non-profit, hospitality, private client, aviation, employee benefit sectors. Licensed in all 50 states. PAUL WOODS Managing director and client executive, Marsh USA, Inc. B.B.A., Risk and Insurance Management, U of M. Member of Marsh’s Southeastern Partnership Management team. Special industry knowledge includes transportation/logistics and wholesale/retail segments. Board member, Page Robbins Adult Day Care Center. Member, Board of Chapter Advisors, Phi Gamma Delta, Mu Tau Chapter. Trustee, Robert E. & Evelyn McKee Foundation.

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The city’s Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market is constantly in flux. There is always a business considering relocating from one part of the city to another and new businesses looking for a location. CRE professionals are the ones businesses seek out to help them fi nd that perfect location for their needs. We asked: When it’s time for your office, retail, or industrial deal, who do you want brokering it? CRE development requires a different set of skills and a determination to take properties from seed to fruit, from inception to conclusion. Whether renovating properties, repurposing old spaces, or imagining the potential of undeveloped parcels and carrying out their vision, these POWER PLAYERS are the facilitators of growth in Memphis and its environs. They’re not just developing properties, they’re developing our business environment. RONALD “RON” BELZ President and CEO, Belz Enterprises. One of the largest commercial and industrial developers in the South. Developments include more than 25 million square feet of property, including Shelby Oaks, Goodlett Farms, Appling Farms, The Peabody, Peabody Place, and numerous office and industrial parks. Specializes in the development and management of industrial, retail, office, and residential properties across the country. Board member and vice chair, The Assisi Foundation. PAUL BOYLE President, Boyle Investment Company. Graduate, Washington and Lee, New Memphis, Leadership Memphis. Member, Chairman’s Circle, Greater Memphis Chamber. Advisory Board member, Baptist Memorial Health Care. Board Member, Urban Land Institute, Brooks Museum of Art. Executive Committee Member, Commercial Real Estate Owners’ Alliance. Founder, West Institute for Cancer Research. DANNY BURING Managing partner, Memphis office, The Shopping Center Group, LLC. B.A., Psychology, UT-Knoxville. Notable clients include Fresh Market, Dick’s, Bed Bath & Beyond, Panera Bread, Chipotle, LA Fitness, Fleming’s Steakhouse. Member, International Council of Shopping Centers. Received Pinnacle Award for Commercial Broker of the Year in 2004. ANDY CATES CEO and President of Brokerage Services for Colliers International in Memphis. Involved in nearly 750 transactions totaling more than 50 million square feet. Recipient of Colliers Everest Award and numerous Memphis Area Association of Realtors Pinnacle Awards including Commercial Broker of 46 |

the Year, 2012. SIOR Memphis Chapter President, 2013; Memphis Chamber Board of Advisors, 2015. DARRELL T. COBBINS President and principal broker, Universal Commercial Real Estate, LLC. B.A., Rhodes; M.B.A., U of M. Chairman’s Circle/Board of Directors, Greater Memphis Chamber. Board of Directors, National Civil Rights Museum. 2013 Board chairman, New Memphis. Past chairman, MLGW. Recipient, 2011 Agent of Change Award, MULYP, 2012 African American Male Image Award for Business, Hobson-Goodlow Foundation. Appointed by Governor Haslam to Tennessee’s State Board of Education. THOMAS FARNSWORTH Partner, Farnsworth Investment Company and Holdings. Member, Society of Ofﬁce and Industrial Realtors (SIOR). Recipient, Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Broker Lifetime Achievement Award, the Lambda Alpha International Excellence in Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award, and Carnival Memphis Cook Halle Award, among others. RICK FOGELMAN CEO, Fogelman Properties. B.S., ﬁnance, University of Texas at Austin; MBA, University of Memphis. Responsible for establishment and implementation of the company’s overall business strategies. Owns/ operates 80 multifamily communities totaling over 25,000 apartment homes throughout the Southeast, Southwest, and Midwest regions of the country. Board of directors, National Multi Housing Council. Past vice president, Tennessee Apartment Association. Licensed real estate broker in Tennessee.

STEVE GUINN Vice president, Highwoods Properties. B.B.A., Baylor. More than 30 years’ experience in commercial real estate. Recipient, Pinnacle Award’s Commercial Broker of the Year in 2009. Certified Public Accountant, LEED Accredited Professional. Member, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Certified Commercial Investment Member. Member, Lambda Alpha International. Board member, Soulsville Foundation, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. LAWRENCE “LARRY” JENSEN President and CEO, Cushman & Wakefield | Commercial Advisors. Instrumental in Smith & Nephew’s acquisition of orthopedics headquarters building. Clients include FedEx, ServiceMaster, AutoZone. 2005 Commercial Broker of the Year; 2008 Office Broker of the Year. Former president, Memphis Tomorrow. Board member, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. Past chairman, Greater Memphis Chamber. CARMA C. JUDE Portfolio manager, Healthcare Realty. B.S., Business Management, Louisiana Tech University; M.B.A., Finance and Real Estate, U of M. Certified Commercial Investment Member. Company owns seven properties totaling 516,000 square feet in Memphis. Clients include Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, numerous physician practices in the Mid-South. MICHAEL A. LIGHTMAN Owner, Michael Lightman Realty Co., a regional leader in commercial property brokerage and land investment. Developed Shelby Business Park. Germantown’s Exeter Village, Centennial Place, South Lake Centre in Southaven, and multiscreen movie theater complexes for Malco Theatres. Inducted into the Commercial Hall of Fame, Memphis Area Association of Realtors. ROBERT “BOB” LOEB President, Loeb Properties, Inc. B.S. and M.B.A., Southern Methodist University. Projects in Memphis include the redevelopment of Overton Square Theatre District, Broad Avenue Arts District, and University District revitalization. Trustee, Memphis University School and Memphis College of Art. Director, Playhouse on the Square and Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. Member, Overton Park Conservatory Board.

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LEWIS K. MCKEE JR. Partner and Broker, McKee and McFarland, Inc. Full-service real estate ﬁrm actively engaged in the acquisition, development, management, and marketing of commercial and industrial properties. Has represented corporate clients including Prudential Insurance Company of America, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Holly Farms Corporation, and Tyson Foods. Licensed Real Estate Broker in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Missouri. Began career with Trammell Crow Company. JEFF MORRIS President, Morris Auction Group and Morris Realty Group in Memphis; Luxury Estates Auction Group in Destin, Florida. Graduate, UT-Martin, Worldwide College of Auctioneering. CAI, AARE certiﬁed .Tennessee Auctioneer Commission. Member, Tennessee Auctioneer Commission, Memphis Area Association of Realtors, National Auctioneers Association, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas Auctioneer Associations. Elected president of NALLOA, in 2014.

GARY PROSTERMAN President and CEO, Development Services Group, Inc. B.S., UTKnoxville; Georgetown. Founder, Symbion. Projects include adaptive reuse of major ofﬁce buildings into hotels in downtown Houston and downtown Atlanta. Board Member, Hapten Sciences, Inc., University of Tennessee College of Consumer Services, and Housing Foundation of West Tennessee. FRANK QUINN Managing director, CBRE. B.B.A., University of Mississippi. More than 30 years of successful commercial real estate brokerage experience. Market leader of the CBRE operations in Memphis and Jackson, Mississippi, overseeing leasing, sales, and management efforts for industrial, ofﬁce, and retail brokerage. Member of the New Memphis Institute, Greater Memphis Chamber, and the Chamber’s Chairman’s Circle. Serves on the University of Mississippi Real Estate Advisory Board.

EDWARD “EDDIE” SAIG President, NAI Saig Company, a full-service industrial, retail, and office brokerage firm. Has business degree from University of Arkansas. Earned Pinnacle Award as the Highest Producing Commercial Real Estate Broker. Recently received the NAI Gold Club Award. Served as president of Memphis Chapter of Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR). Has SIOR and Counselor of Real Estate (CRE) designations. Member, Lambda Alpha National Real Estate Chapter. JOSEPH L. STEFFNER Senior vice president, Regional Managing Director, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank. Recipient, MAAR Pinnacle Award — 2015 Commercial Broker of the Year, 2013 Land Sales Broker of the Year, 2006 Office Sales Broker of the Year. Past president, Children’s Museum of Memphis, Carnival Memphis, MAAR, SIOR Memphis Chapter. B.A., University of Tennessee; M.S., Real Estate Development; and M.B.A., University of Memphis.

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“If you build it, they will come.” With that declaration, the construction industry could be said to operate. But a lot of meaning is in the simple statement. To “build it” is no mean feat. It takes the minds and muscles of professionals, skilled laborers, farsighted foremen, and multitasking managers. The structure exists on paper, but pragmatic hands are required to turn wishful thinking into a realized vision. In the Architecture category, we quoted Le Corbusier: “Architecture is the learned game … of forms assembled in the light.” So, who do you think does all that assembling? A construction site is one sure sign of economic progress. Whenever cranes dominate the urban or suburban skyline, you can almost hear the economic engine revving. A designer dreamt the city up. The POWER PLAYERS in construction put it on the map. JACK BEARDEN Vice president, Belz Construction LLC. Firm offers design, design-build, general contracting services. Focuses on healthcare, industrial, ofﬁce, retail, government, education construction. Clients include Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, St. Jude, Nike, Saint Francis Healthcare, Campbell Clinic. LEED Accredited Professional. Member, Associated General Contractors, American Society of Healthcare Engineering, U.S. Green Building Council, Memphis & Shelby Co. Building Code Board.

H. MONTGOMERY MARTIN Founder & CEO, Montgomery Martin Contractors. B.S., Auburn. Firm specializes in retail, ofﬁce, healthcare, multi-family, hospitality, urban redevelopment, institutional. Clients include Shelby Farms Park, Rael Development, Highwoods Properties, Henry Turley Company, AutoZone Park, Kroger, CBU, Regional One Health, Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Board member, WKNO, Independent Presbyterian. Member, Kiwanis International, Urban Land Institute, Memphis Chamber’s Chairman’s Circle.

FRED GRINDER President, Grinder, Taber and Grinder. Firm offers general contracting, design/build, construction management, LEED-certiﬁed projects. Projects include The Crosstown Project, Rhodes College, Christian Brothers University, Wolf River Medical, Enoble Building, LYFE Kitchen, Hutchinson School, KPMG. Other clients include Second Presbyterian, Presbyterian Day School, FedEx. Recipient, AIA Awards for Excellence for MIFA and Christ Community Medical Center. Member, Associated Builders and Contractors.

CHRIS MCDERMOTT Owner, Grinder Haizlip Construction. BSCE, Oklahoma. More than 30 years’ experience in the ﬁeld. Specializes in commercial, industrial, residential construction. Projects and clients include Wright Medical HQ, Grizzlies Sportsplex, Mellow Mushroom, Gossett Porsche/VW/Audi, Trinity Ridge Business Park, OrthoMemphis, Valero, FedEx, Cargill. Board member, Ronald McDonald House. Recipient, District 6800 Rotarian of the Year. Professional engineer, LEED professional, Leadership Memphis ‘03.

RUSTY LINKOUS President, Linkous Construction Company, Inc. Firm specializes in general contracting, construction management, consulting. Projects include Malco Theatres, Michael Lightman Realty, CBHS, Briarcrest Christian School, Lausanne Collegiate School, MCR Safety, Poplar Healthcare, FedEx, Highland Church of Christ, Financial Federal. Recipient, Platinum Safety Training and Evaluation Process Award; multiple Excellence in Construction Awards, Associated Builders and Contractors.

CLYDE L. PATTON JR. President, Patton & Taylor Construction Company. Firm offers services in general construction, construction management, value engineering. Projects include Harbor Town Landing, The Carrington at Schilling Farms, Civic Center Apartments, 88 Union Center, Centennial Garden Apartments Phases 2, 3, & 4, Fieldstone Apartments Phases 2-6, Memphis Cotton Exchange, Taylor Bend Apartments in Oxford, MS. Named Builder of the Year, MAHBA. Member, Memphis Area Association of Realtors, Lambda Alpha International, Associated Builders and Contractors.

JOE T. SAVAGE Owner and CEO,Metro Construction, a commercial General Contractor founded in 1981 that offers pre-construction, project management, design-build services. Specializes in commercial renovation and new construction of cold chain, education, historic, hotel & condo, industrial, office, religious, restaurant, retail projects. Projects include Memphis RISE High School, Graceland West Retail, Oxford Toyota, Frida’s Restaurante Mexicano, Green Mountain Technology, Chickasaw Country Club, Junior League of Memphis. ALLEN WAGNER President, Wagner General Contractors, Inc. B.B.A.,Harding University. Wagner General, a commercial general contractor licensed in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, is Diamond Level certified in the ABC Safety Training and Evaluation Process, and it is the culmination of a dream to have a company where employees and clients are treated with respect and always dealt with honestly. TIM WEATHERFORD Vice president and area manager, Flintco, LLC. Flintco specializes in construction management projects for healthcare, education, hospitality, research, corporate clients. Clients include St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, FedEx, ServiceMaster, UTHSC, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, Collierville Schools, Regional One Health. Recipient, Excellence in Construction Awards for Guest House at Graceland, West Cancer Center, St. Jude KRCC. Member, Associated Builders and Contractors, Memphis Chamber Chairman’s Circle. CHRIS L. WOODS President, Chris Woods Construction Co., Inc. Founded in 1985, the firm services include general contracting and construction management. Clients and projects include FedEx, Memphis Shelby County Airport Authority, Bayer Crop Science, Main Event Entertainment, Olympus Corporation of the Americas, TAG Truck Center, Gill Properties, Tennessee Air National Guard, Memphis Land Bank, Lakeland School System, MGM Resorts International, ExxonMobil Pipeline Company, Baptist Memorial Healthcare Corporation, Indmar Marine, Brim’s Snack Foods, Brixmor Properties, Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Recipient, multiple Excellence in Construction Awards, Associated Builders and Contractors. Member, Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated General Contractors of America, American Institute of Architects, U.S. Green Building Council.

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Quality health and financial benefits packages not only make employees happy, they make companies more competitive and efficient — and what business owner or manager doesn’t want that? Professionals in this category broker these high-quality benefits and balance the needs of employers and employees alike. Not only do these POWER PLAYERS have an expert understanding of financial advising, they know what benefits and amenities are most important to employees, including healthcare plans, pension plans, and, in some cases, even childcare, transportation, and cafeteria plans. Being the middleman isn’t always easy, but these professionals know how to meet everyone’s needs at once — and keep companies running as smoothly as possible in the fast-paced, ever-changing fields of healthcare and finance. J. AUSTIN BAKER III President, HRO Partners, a human resources consulting and outsourcing ﬁrm representing private sector and public sector municipal and governmental entities with more than 45,000 employees and retirees. Top 40 under 40, Leadership Memphis, and Nexus Graduate Entrepreneur of the Year (2010) from U of M Fogelman College of Business & Economics. Cofounder, J. Austin Baker III Memphis Institute for Leadership Education Program. Board member, FCBE Alumni Chapter & Economic Club. Co-owner, Owen Brennan’s restaurant. ED BARNETT Founder and president, The Barnett Group. Member, American Association of Life Underwriters. Lifetime member, Million Dollar Roundtable; recipient, Top of the Table Award. Order of Excalibur, AXA Advisors. AXA Advisors Hall of Fame. Recipient, 2013 Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Living Award for Inspiration in Faith and Health. Former board member, Make-A-Wish, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Foundation, MS Society. ROBERT “BOB” BROWN Founder and Partner, UCL Financial Group, LLC. Mr. Brown is a Chartered Life Underwriter, Past President of the Memphis Local, Tennessee State, and National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Recipient, many industry awards, Tennessee Insurance Professional of the Year (2000), Lester A. Rosen Humanitarian and Achievement Award, Ameritas Hall of Fame, 2013 Robert E. Musto Tennessee Insurance Hall of Fame, MTSU. Former board member, Life 50 |

Insurance Foundation for Education, Life and Qualifying member of MDRT, Court of the Table since 2005. KAREN W. BUCKNER Partner and office leader in Memphis, Mercer. B.A., Mathematics, Vanderbilt University. Company is a human resources consulting firm and subsidiary of Marsh and McLennan Companies. Consulting actuary for large retirement plans. Member, Society of Actuaries, American Academy of Actuaries. Enrolled actuary for DOL and IRS. Mercer recognized by Memphis Business Journal as largest employee benefits firm in Memphis. Leadership Memphis Executive Class, 2013. TODD DYSON President, Clay and Land Insurance, Inc., founded in 1968. Started with company in 1989. Specializes in employee benefits consulting, administration. Member, multiple broker advisory boards and committees. Multi-year Leaders Club qualifier. Member, National Association of Health Underwriters, National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Colonial Country Club. Board member, Memphis Golf Association. SHANNON DYSON Vice president, Shoemaker Benefits Corporation. Graduate, UT. Responsible for Group Benefits operations in Memphis and Nashville with a focus on Group Health, Life, and Disability benefits plans. Specializes in creative plan design and long-term benefits planning to help employers provide value to their employees by using sometimes unconventional

products and services. National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Mid-South Association of Health Underwriters. KELLY O. FINNELL President and founder, Executive Financial Services, Inc., a national ESOP consulting firm that has implemented ESOP transactions in 20 cities in 12 states across the US. Bachelor’s, J.D., U of M. Author, The ESOP Coach: Using ESOPs in Ownership Succession Planning; numerous articles published in professional journals, including September, 2012 issue, Estate Planning. Spoken at over 300 conferences including: the Heart of America Federal Tax Institute, Great Plains Federal Tax Institute, Alabama Federal Tax Institute. TIMOTHY J. FINNELL President and founder, Group Benefits LLC. B.B.A., U of M. Firm provides strategic planning for companies seeking employee benefits solutions. Frequent speaker on healthcare and benefits. Interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney. Executive of the Year Finalist, Memphis Business Journal; 2015 and 2016 Pacesetters Award Honoree, Memphis Business Journal. Certified Healthcare Reform Specialist, Chartered Financial Consultant. Member, Memphis Health Underwriters Association, American Society of Financial Service Professionals. MARK FORRESTER CEO, Regions Insurance of Tennessee. B.B.A., Insurance and Risk Management, U of M. Responsible for company operations in Memphis and Nashville with focus on property, casualty, employee benefits, executive life, HR, risk management consulting. Senior vice president, Regions Insurance Group. Former president, Insurors of Memphis, Greater Memphis Insurance Council. Former state director, Insurors of Tennessee. National Advisory Board member, AIG, Zurich Insurance. KEITH A. JAMES President, CEO, chief manager, The James Group, LLC. B.A., North Carolina; M.B.A., East Carolina. Founded company in 2003. Lifetime Status, National Health Association Health Underwriters Leading Producers Round Table. Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives. Past

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planning. Chartered Life Underwriter. Member, Society of Financial Professionals. Life member, Million Dollar Round Table. Member, Estate Planning Council of Memphis, Economic Club of Memphis. Board member, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis. Member, Rotary Club of East Memphis Advisory Board. WM. ASHLEY PACE Producer partner, Lockton Companies. Graduate, UT. Excels in effective benefit plan design, risk management strategy, compensation, retirement strategies to position organizations to reduce insurance costs and increase productivity. Recipient, Presidents Club Award. Member, International Foundation of Employee Benefits, National Business Group on Health, Society of Human Resource Managers. Mentor, NEXUS Leadership Program. Board member, American Heart Association. FRED SCHAEFFER JR. Financial services executive, SFP Benefits. Bachelor’s, Business Administration, University of Mississippi. Has 25 years of experience in the industry and extends to a 3rd generation after joining his father and grandfather in the business. Practice focuses on group benefits and individual planning throughout the Mid-South. Lifetime Master’s Conference Qualifer, Hall of Fame 2011. Lifetime Member of Million Dollar Round Table. Board of Trustees, Hutchison School and Memphis University School. Deacon, Second Presbyterian Church. CHARLES SIMS JR. President and CEO, the Sims Financial Group, Inc. Certified Financial Planner, Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow, Certified Mutual Funds Manager. Member, National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Life and qualifying member, Million Dollar Round Table. First African-American member of John Hancock’s Hall of Fame. Life and founding member, Crescent Club of Memphis. Board member, First American Bank, WKNO. STUART ZALOWITZ Senior vice president, Employee Benefits Division, Regions Insurance, Inc. B.S., University of Oklahoma. NAHU Certified Healthcare Reform Consultant. Estate Planner. National Association of Health Underwriters Golden Eagle Award Winner. Member, National Association of Estate Planners, National Association of Health Underwriters. Certified Long-Term Care Specialist.

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Dr. William H. West | Kim Heathcott | Kent Ritchey | Ron Coleman | Jay Myers The Society of Entrepreneurs has a terrific collection of visionaries who, beyond having good business sense, also know how to take risks and capitalize on them. This year, four names were added to the organization and they are as different as can be: One started a security firm from scratch, another is an automobile superseller, a third is a leading manufacturer of power camshafts, and the fourth parlayed video conferencing into a moneymaker. In addition, the SOE is presenting its Master Entrepreneur Award to Dr. William H. West, the force behind the West Cancer Center and a tireless crusader to bring better healthcare to the world. The quintet is featured in this POWER PLAYERS edition of Inside Memphis Business because they know how to defy the odds. As Ron Coleman, president of Competition Cams, puts it: “There was a time when people didn’t think it was possible for a push-rod engine to go 10,000 RPM. Now we do it all the time.” Vrooooooom! M A S T E R

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Dr. William H. West West Cancer Center

High school student Bill West got some marching orders from his father, a surgeon in Memphis. “He wanted me to do anything that I wanted to do in life — as soon as I finished medical school,” West says. That direction became clear when he was a senior in college when his mother died of cancer. “I was going to medical school and into a new field called oncology, cancer medicine. That would be my destination.” It would be an extraordinary journey. West worked for a while at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland but returned to Memphis where he realized cancer care needed rethinking. “Historically cancer had been in the hands of the surgeons,” he says. “I love surgeons, my father was one, but they’d have the inclination to think that they can cure everything all on their own.” Patients were going to different doctors around the city and admitted to the hospital for simple chemotherapy. “Obviously there needed to be a better system for patient care, an integrated system.” West and his team developed the concept of a day hospital. They brought in radiology and outpatient chemotherapy. “It was a matter of knowing that patients needed integrated care and support,” he says. “Everything just naturally flowed from what was good for the patient. Someone ••• BY J O N W. S PA RKS ••• PH O TO G R A PH S BY L IS A B US ER

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who’s just learned they have a life-threatening illness needs things organized and they need support. Everything in one place is the best.” He further realized that clinical trials in Memphis were necessary. “That’s the hope component,” West says, “and if we’re not bringing in new drugs for a given cancer then we’re not doing very well. We wanted to offer something new and more hopeful.” West was always clear on what needed to be done, but there was no instruction manual. “We took risks,” he says, “because risk always meant better care and that’s what we were all about.” West’s achievements earned him membership in the Society of Entrepreneurs. Winning the Master Entrepreneur Award signifies that he embodies the self-direction, determination, creativity, leadership, and integrity necessary for membership in the Society. While he no longer actively practices at the West Cancer Center, he’s been applying his single-minded devotion to other projects. His LLC, The Prevention Group, acquired Lifesigns, now a full-service employer-focused primary care provider that does annual prevention exams. His group also bought HealthyHere, which provides preventive care services at the worksite for employees. “The idea of HealthyHere is to make a clinic on wheels so it could be shared, from larger corporations to very small companies,” West says. And that’s how a master healer becomes a master entrepreneur.

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Kim Heathcott Clarion Security

While some people know from their first waking moment that they’re going to be entrepreneurs, others probably didn’t give it a thought until destiny gave them a push. Kim Heathcott is one such late bloomer. She had a career in finance, living in Texas for 10 years and then moving back to Memphis, her hometown, still in the banking trade. She was contemplating retiring and staying home with her children, but her husband, Larry, told her one day, “I think you could start a company.” Heathcott told him she’d think about it. “I tell people I’m a reluctant entrepreneur,” she says, “because that was not a dream of mine in high school.” But she did her due diligence and decided to give it a whirl. “My husband had a little bit of exposure in the security business,” she says, “and when I looked at it, I saw that Memphis is a great security town. From the logistics distribution industry that’s here, there were market dynamics that I thought were appealing. There were opportunities and it was not a business that a lot of new entrants had come in. So I thought maybe we could come in there.” Even if the conditions were favorable, Heathcott knew she still needed to call on mentors and advisors, and where better to look than the Society of Entrepreneurs? “About four or five months into my business, I joined one of the Insight Groups and learned so much from the wisdom of some of the members of the Society,” she says. “I didn’t know what I was doing, but a couple of their ideas stuck with me. Memphis is wonderful from a resource standpoint, and I’ve gotten a lot of help from this entrepreneurial ecosystem that’s out there.” She cites Mike Bruns of Comtrak Logistics as one influence, “because he invested so much in his people, and he had somewhat of a similar type of business model,” she says. “Even after I left the Insights Group I’d call him and ask for advice. He was very people-driven, employee-driven, and that made a difference in his company and really resonated with me right from the beginning.” Heathcott says the most important advice, also from an SOE member, came when Clarion was still very small, with three customers and a handful of employees. “We sat around the dining table with Rudi Scheidt and he said something that has stuck with me. He said, ‘When you’ve grown and you’re 10 or 15 times as big, the key is to keep the quality of your customer service as excellent as it is now, with these customers and employees.’ Boy, was that great advice. I’m still working on that one.” She’s been attentive to her business while also becoming involved in helping other women entrepreneurs. In 2013, Heathcott was named president of the Memphis Chapter of the National Association of Woman Business Owners and has devised 56 |

programs to help businesswomen and increase the local chapter’s membership. The national organization named her Business Owner of the Year 2017, and the magazine Inc. recognized Clarion in its list of 5,000 fastest-growing businesses for three consecutive years. Heathcott has come to realize a few truths that she shares with other entrepreneurs. “I’m what you would call a recovering perfectionist,” she says. “You’re just not going to know all the answers. You’ll make decisions that are good and bad and sometimes you get so clutched up over whether it’s the right thing to do — and it may not be. Don’t be so hard on yourself. You know you’ll have failures in addition to success and make the best decisions you can, learn from them, and keep moving forward.” Inside Memphis Business: How do you get the best employees? Kim Heathcott: Building relationships, first of all. It takes the right person to come in and come join a startup when you don’t have the experience. We brought in really great people that were really sold on the cause. My management team, my employees, and I have all grown together. IMB: You’ve said you talk the talk and walk the walk. What does that mean? KH: One of the first things I did was to get licensed as a guard because I really wanted to go through the whole process and learning. To be a registered agent in the state of Tennessee, I had all these textbooks and had to pass an exam. Then I wanted to be the scheduler, I wanted to be the operations manager. I’ve hired and unfortunately I’ve fired. I have answered phones, saved money, been the janitor and the bookkeeper. Until I get hands-on, it’s hard for me to really understand it. IMB:: How do you sell a client? IMB KH: The key is showing your knowledge and your passion and delivering on your product. Everybody’s website says the same thing, and everybody’s promotion says you can all do the same things. So, what really is it that makes you separate? A lot of it is that personal passion to really drive excellence at each client, and they’re all very different. IMB: As head of a security firm, you IMB must lead an exciting life. KH: I’m a conservative, kind of boring type of person. I like to read and play the piano and garden. At one time in my life, I was a scuba diver who went down 100 feet into caves and came up on a tiger shark and didn’t run for my life. I’ll stick to my gardening and my reading from now on.

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Kent Ritchey Landers Auto Group

Kent Ritchey wants to sell you a car. Or, really, anything on his lot at Landers Ford. It’s in his blood. The founder and president of Ritchey Management, LLC and Landers Auto Group has five decades of dealing wheels in the Mid-South, from individual vehicles to dealerships.

biles, we write a check and we show up.” His company also acquired the naming rights to the Landers Center in Southaven. “It’s the jewel of the Mid-South,” he says. “I love the FedExForum, and it’s fantastic, but we also have a 10,000-seat venue, multipurpose arena that looks like a diamond and operates that way, and we love our association with them.”

Even as a kid, he says, he was a joiner. His dad was an automobile dealer who had a rule in the house: You were excused from work if you were in a sports activity. Ritchey got involved in lots of sports. But he loved to work and decided to take his competitive nature and go into banking, where he liked the drive and energy. But he missed the automobile trade. So he left the bank and joined the family business. Ritchey worked in small towns in the Mid-South but realized the action was in the city. “I came to Memphis,” he says. “I thought people in Memphis knew something I didn’t know about the car business. I found out they didn’t.” While he didn’t know everything, he was an exceptional student. “I worked for Homer Skelton for many years, a legendary dealer in Memphis, self-made man,” he says. “He started from the floor selling cars and knowing multiple automobile dealerships. I watched how he developed relationships with people, and how he treated people, and how people were attracted to him. And for the last 10 years I worked for Roger Penske, and that was the Ph.D. You saw the attention to detail, the drive, and the way the business was going.” Ritchey kept at it. But it wasn’t until 10 years ago that he took that big leap. He might have retired except that his plans don’t include retirement. “I took all my 401(k), and all my life savings, and all the equity in my and my wife’s house, and borrowed more money than you would’ve thought humanly possible to repay to start this operation,” he says. “In less than 10 years we’ve become the largest privately owned automobile dealership in the Mid-South. We have nine brands, we operate in three vast markets, we employ over 400 people, and sell tens of thousands of automobiles,” he says. “I have to pinch myself. What’s interesting, I did this in the teeth of the worst recession or depression since the Great Depression. It turned out to be a time of opportunity.” Beyond getting people into his vehicles across the Mid-South, Ritchey’s mission is to improve the community. “We’re not going to be any better or any more successful than our community is,” he says. “Many years ago we began an association with St. Jude through the FedEx St. Jude Golf Tournament, and now through the Memphis Marathon.” The company also supports area schools and other organizations. “Anyplace that you’ll let us put our name and one of our automo-

Inside Memphis Business: What’s the secret to success? Kent Ritchey: I think people spend most of their lives getting ready to get ready. They’re never ready. Get started. Be honest with yourself, surround yourself with good people, and accumulate as much capital as you can. IMB: Anything else? KR: I think that sleep is vastly overrated. IMB: What makes Memphis such a good entrepreneurial town? KR: It’s a crossroads of three states, it’s a river town, it’s very welcoming, it seems to attract risk takers, and it seems to reward risk takers. You watch that, and you watch that success, and you see other people do that, and you think, “Well, I can do the same thing.” Memphis produced the first multi-ownership automobile operation in the United States, and that was the Dobbs family. No one had ever done it, and they kind of set the example. In fact, my business model is modeled after the way they set up their stores. IMB:: What do you do to keep employees? IMB KR: We developed open pay plans with no cap — I don’t think you can ever pay too much for great talent. And I think that you surround yourself with good citizens to begin with, and they have the same values that you do, and the same ideals, and they have the same goals. In my business, you’d better surround yourself with people that are competitive. And then, don’t tell people what to do — show them what you want done and do it yourself. Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty, and don’t be afraid to get into the nitty-gritty, into the detail. IMB:: Beyond bringing home the IMB bacon, what are the other rewards of your work? KR: I love the automobiles, I love the competitiveness of it, I love the experience of dealing with people one-on-one, I love seeing the joy when someone buys an automobile. And I love it when we sell them their first one. And I laugh when people say, “This is the last car I’ll ever buy,” and that was three cars ago. T H E P O W E R P L AY E R S 2 0 1 8 | IN S ID E M EM P HI S B U S IN E S S .C O M |

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Ron Coleman Competition Cams

Ron Coleman was already a seasoned businessman when some people approached him about being part of a camshaft company. But as a savvy entrepreneur, he couldn’t help but scratch his head. “Of all things,” he wondered, “how many people need a camshaft? He figured not that many, “because every car that’s on the street right now already has one.”

and couldn’t take the risk. He was a successful manager for a life insurance company and inspired his son. For Coleman, the other people who shaped his success as an entrepreneur are on the other end of the spectrum: those who failed. “You learn more from people who fail, or from your own failures, than you do from the people who’ve been successful. If you observe and watch, you’ll see the seeds of destruction being sown in a lot of areas. You see if you can mitigate those and make yours not quite as risky.”

A lesser entrepreneur might have ended the conversation and gone on his way. But Coleman realized there was more to it. “They said it wasn’t that kind of cam,” he says. “It’s not a need, it’s a want.” The argument was persuasive: They wanted to make cams that would get vehicles to perform in special ways, for speed, for power, for durability. As in, for example, racing. “An engine doesn’t really care whether it goes in a drag race car, an oval track car, a NASCAR,” he says. “It can go in a boat. It can go off-road. It can go anywhere you want it to. We have other industrial uses, but probably we’re most famous for our racing.” A camshaft is the heart of the engine. “It’s probably the sole part that’s most important in giving you horsepower,” Coleman says. “We’ve taken a scientific approach. People have been working for years to make cams better. What we’ve been able to do is find ways or tools or properties to make them even better than the people who came before us.” The group that made it happen was, he says, a small group of people. “We all brought a skill,” he says. “Not everybody brought all the skills. My skills sometimes were the least important and someone else’s the most important. It varied from day to day, week to week, year to year whose skills were most important. But you had to have people who could step up and handle the risk and the problems.” Coleman built up those skills with his involvement in some 30 businesses over the years. Having helmed Competition Cams for 40 years, he understands how the engine of entrepreneurship runs. “You work together and you have to be a risk taker,” he says. “You have to be willing to be married to your business. A lot of people clock out at five and they leave everything there. You don’t clock out. To be a real entrepreneur you have to have the spirit, the commitment, and the support to get where you need to go.” Coleman’s influences begin with his father, who he says wanted to start a business but World War II and the Korean War intervened, and by the time he could have done it, he had a family to support

Inside Memphis Business: What kind of people do you look for? Ron Coleman: We’ve never paid minimum wage for anybody coming into our business. We have a program where we try to take people who maybe didn’t finish high school but have some mechanical ability, and we try to train them and bring them along so that they’re able to step up in the world.

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IMB: Where do you manufacture? RC: For the most part, right here in Memphis. Some people say, “I didn’t know there were any manufacturers. This is a distribution point.” Well it is, but the truth is, there’s a lot of manufacturing that specializes and can be done here. We’ve moved a lot of our equipment from other places to Memphis and we find it to be a very hospitable place for that. IMB: Why is Memphis a good place for entrepreneurs? RC: What Memphis possibly has done differently than other cities is we’ve been maybe a little better at nurturing those people who had that kernel of an idea that needed to be encouraged to grow, because I think people everywhere have ideas but sometimes they don’t have the right community to help them. I think it’s got more to do with the community than it does simply with just being in one particular place. IMB: What’s your most notable achievement? RC: I’ve been able to pull up a lot of people as I went up. I’m very proud of the fact that there are people who may not have ever had an opportunity to be middle class or better in their life without the fact that I was successful enough to bring them up. If I can help bring two or three people up and those two or three can help bring two or three up, eventually we improve our whole community. IMB: What’s the best cam there is? RC: The best cam is the one that we’ll make tomorrow. We got the best there is today, but the best cams are going to be the ones we make tomorrow, the next day, or the day after that.

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Jay Myers Interactive Solutions, Inc.

Jay Myers was fired on his 39th birthday. Most people will imagine that to be a sad event, but most entrepreneurs will perk up and think, “It’s an opportunity!” In fact, as Myers says, “That’s how I got started on my entrepreneurial journey. I was forced into it, honestly, but it’s been an incredible ride, a lot of ups and downs, and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.” Myers moved to Memphis from Louisiana at age 9 and graduated from Christian Brothers High School and the University of Memphis. He worked for Hewlett Packard, Eastman/Kodak, and a local telecom company where, as a data projects manager, he became familiar with video conferencing and saw the potential of the technology. “Video conferencing made so much sense to me,” he says. “With the big corporation I could picture flying to all these cities and doing training for one day. And I’m adding up the price of the plane ticket, and the hotel, and the food, I’m going like, ‘Isn’t there a better way to do this?’ When I saw the first video conferencing, it was like, ‘This stuff makes a ton of sense. You mean I don’t actually have to physically be there and still have a productive meeting?’” Video conferencing is the primary aspect of Interactive Solutions, but the company also offers audio-visual integration, video conferencing for schools, distance learning, and services for healthcare and telemedicine. “We use our core competency to be able to outfit boardrooms, auditoriums, hospitals, schools, etc.,” he says. While there’s never any guarantee of success, Myers did have an encounter that he figured was a very good sign. “When I started the business, I got a call out of the blue from a guy named Kemmons Wilson,” he says. “My secretary didn’t have any idea who he was. He comes to the office and I’m so excited I have her get a camera to take pictures of us. He goes through a video conferencing demonstration and didn’t buy anything, but he shook my hand and he said, ‘You hang in there. You’re going to make some money with this business.’ I’m a good old Catholic; I thought the Pope had just blessed me.” The lowest point in Myers’ enterprise came when he discovered his accounting manager had embezzled $250,000 from the company. He managed to keep Interactive Solutions afloat and he kept himself from falling apart by writing a book about it. “It’s called Keep Swinging and it was like therapy,” he says. “I was trying to tell the story about embezzlement because it’s kind

of like businesses’ dirty little secret. The other part was overcoming adversity. This was the worst of times. I felt like I was staring at the abyss. And then to rebound and do what we did where we doubled business after the embezzlement the next year — I thought that was a story worth telling.” Later, he penned another book — Hitting the Curveballs — about how the business grew during the recession. “It wasn’t just with the sales revenue, and the profits, and all that goes along with that,” he says “but it was the way we did it. We lost a bunch of people to turnover and we had to replace them, and rather than going out and trying to hire experienced people, we ended up hiring Millennials. And Millennials that we could train, and we call it our farm system. We went through a tough patch there training these people, but four years after hiring the Millennials, I took my business from $11 million to $25 million amid the worst economy in 80 years.” Myers’ influences are his late father, Jerry Myers, who ran the Better Business Bureau, and his late brother, John Myers. “They were like my Bibles, the Old Testament and the New Testament,” he says. “Their advice was invaluable. There’s a right way to run a business, and the three things around here that are so important are honesty, integrity, and ethics. We feel like that’s part of our brand.” Inside Memphis Business: What’s your guilty pleasure? Jay Myers: Baseball fantasy camps. The suit I always wanted to wear is New York Yankees pinstripes. For my whole life, as a little boy and everything, I always wanted to play center field for the New York Yankees. Just didn’t quite have the talent. But now, every few years, it’s a week of a bunch of old, gray, fat guys out there playing baseball with the Yankee legends of the past at the camps. It doesn’t make any financial sense, but boy I sure have a lot of fun. IMB: What words of wisdom do you have? JM: When you go into business for yourself, don’t be a martyr, carrying the weight of the company on your shoulders and all those things. Reach out to anybody and everybody that can help you with that business. Check your ego at the door and you’ve got a chance to be successful. IMB: Why is this town so good for entrepreneurs? JM: Memphis is a grit-and-grind kind of city, blue collar. We don’t necessarily do it always the prettiest way but we get the job done. People here respect hard work, and frankly the risk-takers, they absorb that in the economy and realized that the risk-taking is to be admired and supported.

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Every day we rely upon engineers in incalculable ways — or at least in ways incalculable to us but certainly not to these experts. Our bridges, electrical systems, homes, and cars are the products of expert engineering; just ask any of the POWER PLAYERS on this list. They represent some of the most prestigious engineering fi rms in Memphis, helping to turn innovative ideas into a functional reality and answering the eternal design questions: Will it work? And how? And why? And where? And to what extent? And for how long? Civil engineers are at the vanguard of civilization’s material existence — the tip of the spear of humanity’s desire to overcome a stubborn natural world. The city’s engineers are poised to make the greatest impact in Memphis’ future. Plus, they’re good at math. Respect. JEFF L. ARNOLD President and CEO, Fisher Arnold, Inc. B.S., Civil Engineering, Christian Brothers University. Cofounded firm providing engineering, architectural, environmental consulting services in transportation, energy, parks and recreation, land, water. Registered Professional Engineer. Projects include I-69, SR-385, U of M University Center. Member, CBU Engineering Advisory Board. PAC Trustee, American Council of Engineering Companies; past president of Memphis Chapter. MARK W. ASKEW President, A2H, Inc. B.S., Civil Engineering, U of M. Following its motto of “Creating an Enhanced Quality of Life for Our Clients & Community,” A2H specializes in architecture, engineering, planning, landscape architecture, surveying. Board chairman, Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce. Member, Advisory Board, Herff College of Engineering, U of M. SCOTT BARRY Senior Principal, Smith Seckman Reid, Inc. (SSR). Certified in Plumbing Design and as a LEED AP. SSR a long-time leader in comprehensive engineering design and facility consulting services, specializing in engineering design for civil, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, instrumentation and controls, structural, transportation, construction management, inspection. Current projects include Ballet Memphis, City of Memphis property maintenance relocation, Central Station renovation, St. Jude building expansion, I-40/I-240.

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RICHARD C. BURSI President and CEO, OGCB, Inc. Mechanical and Electrical Consulting Engineers. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, U of M. Member, Tennessee Architectural and Engineering Board of Examiners. TSPE Outstanding Engineer of the Year, 2016. Herff College of Engineering Outstanding Alumnus, 2004. Past president, Memphis Chapter, American Council of Engineering Companies of Tennessee. Member, Executive Board, Memphis Italian Festival. Projects include Crosstown Concourse, Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, FedExForum, Rhodes College Barret Library, Sewanee McClurg Dining Hall. JAMES F. COLLINS Principal, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Memphis. Projects include Environmental Impact Statement for a new multimodal bridge over the Mississippi River in Memphis, design of Elvis Presley Boulevard improvements, industrial warehouses, I-240/Airways interchange, Memphis/Shelby County trafﬁc signal coordination, and redesign of Saddle Creek South. 2010 ACEC Featured Engineer. PHILLIP G. COOP Chairman and co-founder, EnSafe, Inc. A.B. degree, Harvard University. Cofounded EnSafe in 1980. With ofﬁces throughout U.S., company provides environmental consulting, engineering, industry safety, hygiene consulting, geographic information services. Member, White House Advisory Panel on Sustainability. Charter member, Hazardous Materials Control Institute. Recipient, Herff Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Engineering. Elected into the Society of Entrepreneurs in 2011.

MARK GREY Associate vice president of business development, South, Buchart Horn, Inc. M.B.A., U of M. Company offers full architectural and engineering services pertaining to transportation, environmental, facilities. Clients include TDOT, City of Memphis, Shelby County, surrounding states, cities, towns on a variety of transportation and water resource projects. Member, Society for Marketing Professional Service, American Public Works Association, Tennessee Chapter. JOEL T. JOHNSON President, Burr & Cole Consulting Engineers, Inc. B.S., Civil Engineering, U of M; Master of Engineering Management, Christian Brothers University. With Burr & Cole since 1988. Professional Engineer in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Georgia. Projects include State of Tennessee, U of M, Lausanne Collegiate School, Rhodes College, Shelby County, Coca-Cola. MICHAEL POHLMAN President/CEO, Pickering Firm, Inc., a professional engineering and architectural design services provider for facilities, roads, municipalities, water resources, natural resources, surveying. B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Christian Brothers University. Member, Greater Memphis Chamber’s Chairman Circle, Tennessee Economic Development Council. Past president, Tennessee American Council of Engineering Companies. Advisory Board Member, U of M and CBU Schools of Engineering. 2014 CBU Alumni of the Year. Member, MLGW Board of Commissioners. NISHA POWERS President, Powers Hill Design, LLC. B.S., Civil Engineering, UT-Knoxville. Founded ﬁrm in 2005. Appointed by Governor Bill Haslam to the Tennessee Aeronautics Commission; board member and past chairman. Board member, Women’s Foundation. Co-chair, Grants Committee, Visible Music College. Projects include Main Street to Main Street Multimodal Connector, Overton Square Garage Detention Basin, Zoo Parking Expansion. Recognitions include MBJ’s “Super Woman in Business,” “Top 40 Under 40” of the Ruby R. Wharton Outstanding Community Service Award. Passionate about encouraging young girls to consider engineering as a career. Most cherished title – “Proud Mom of 4-year old Lucas.” HARRY PRATT President and CEO, Allen & Hoshall. B.S., Civil Engineering, Christian Brothers University. M.S., Civil Engineering, U of M. M.B.A., U of M. Registered Professional Engineer in six states. Past member, Dean of Engineering Advisory Board, Christian Brothers University; Civil Engineering Advisory Board, U of M.

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Past president, Executive M.B.A. Alumni Association, U of M. Former adjunct professor, Department of Civil Engineering, U of M. Member, American Consulting Engineers Council, National Society of Professional Engineers, Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers. With Allen & Hoshall since 1975. Served as project manager for 62 FedEx projects. Recently served as Technical Project Manager for City of Memphis’ Main Street to Main Street Intermodal Connector Project. JAMES H. TOLES Principal, Toles & Associates, Inc. Established company in 1987. B.S., Civil Engineering, U of M. Former structural technician and structural design engineer, Pickering. Former project manager and administrator, MLGW. Former project manager, FedEx. Registered Professional Engineer in many states. Member, Consulting Engineers of Tennessee, Society of American Military Engineers, Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board. CHRIS TRIPLETT Manager, Memphis Office, and vice president, Barge Design Solutions. B.S., Civil Engineering, U of M. Project Management Professional, Professional Engineer. Recipient, 2011 Dan B. Barge Jr. Award. Leadership Memphis 2015 class. Member, Bartlett Design Review Committee, Memphis Kiwanis Club. Projects include Shelby County Resiliency Competition, and more. MATTHEW D. WOLFE President, ETI Corporation. B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi. With company for more than 20 years; president since 2012. Involved in detailed design of civil engineering and land development projects, including roadways, hydrology, industrial and commercial site development. Projects include City of Memphis, State of Tennessee, multiple municipal airports. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, Society of American Military Engineers. Registered Professional Engineer. J. WESLEY WOOLDRIDGE Civil department manager, Renaissance Group, Inc. B.S., Mississippi State. Professional Civil Engineer. Certified Arborist. Specializes in site planning and engineering, as well as state and municipal permit compliance. Clients include Shelby County Schools, Collierville School System, FedEx, MPD, Vita Property Management Group. Involved in multi-family, hotels, assisted living, small-lot infill urban development. Current work includes Collierville High School construction administration, commercial development, municipal utility design, hotel/hospitality development.

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Financial Planning Money ain’t easy. It can be hard enough to obtain, so when it comes to growing your dollars, choosing the right fi nancial planner is critical. A good fi nancial planner moves easily between devising long-term comprehensive fi nancial plans and tackling very specific goals such as buying a home or investing an inheritance. He or she has a command of sound investments and is prepared to assess the risks and possible outcomes of a variety of plans. In addition to bringing strong credentials to the table, the planner must also possess a more personal trait — the gift of making clients feel comfortable and confident in their decisions. CHIRAG CHAUHAN Partner and director, Financial Services, The Barnett Financial Group. Certified Financial Planner professional. FINRA Dispute Resolution Arbitrator. Accredited Investment Fiduciary. Lifetime member, Million Dollar Roundtable. Advisory Council, Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown. Board of directors, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, Orpheum Theatre Group. Recipient, 2011 to 2017 Centurion Producer Award, AXA Advisors. BRIAN DOUGLAS Principal, Guidingpoint Financial Group. Works with those approaching and in retirement to implement retirement income strategies and intergenerational planning practices. Only Accredited Domestic Partnership Advisor (ADPA) in the Mid-South, working with non-traditional families, single parents, LGBTQ individuals and couples to better understand and manage their complex financial planning concerns and needs. KATHLEEN FISH President and founder, Fish and Associates Financial Services. M.B.A., U of M. Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Life Underwriter, Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor. Member, Financial Planning Association, Society of Entrepreneurs. Founding partner, Fusion Advisor Network. Board member, Playhouse on the Square, Playback Memphis, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at U of M. JIM ISAACS President and CEO, Legacy Wealth Management. Certified Financial Planner. B.A., Ithaca College; M.B.A., Finance, Seton Hall University. Member Board of Trustees, Christian Brothers University, Vistage 62 |

International, Economic Club of Memphis. Five Star Wealth Manager, 2009-2015, Memphis magazine. MARTY KELMAN Chairman and co-founder, KelmanLazarov Inc. Certified Financial Planner. B.A., University of Virginia; M.Ed. and M.B.A., U of M. Former president, Memphis Chapter for the International Association of Financial Planning. Trustee, National Board of Facing History and Ourselves; past president, Memphis Chapter. Member, Holocaust Memorial Committee of Memphis Jewish Federation; fund development chair, member, Executive Committee for the Jewish Foundation of Memphis. Trustee, former president, Lausanne Collegiate School. KAREN M. KRUSE President, Advisory Services, FTB Advisors, Inc. Senior vice president, First Tennessee Bank. B.A., M.B.A., University of Memphis. 25 years in financial planning, investment, trust services industry. Team works with clients on goals-based financial planning and investing. Certified Financial Planner, Accredited Investment Fiduciary, Certified Retirement Counselor. Member, FTB Advisors Investment Committee, First Horizon Pension and Investment Retirement Committee. Alumna, New Memphis. Trustee, Gestalt Community Schools. Mentor through Streets Ministries. CHARLES R. (MACK) MCKINNEY Managing principal and financial advisor, Waddell & Reed, Inc. B.B.A., Managerial Finance, University of Mississippi. Named to 2011, 2013, 2014 Waddell & Reed Circle of Champions. 2012 Advisor Medalist Program. Awards based on sales management activities. Joined firm in 2009; promoted to current position in 2011. Enjoys golfing, hunting, playing lacrosse, supporting local community organizations and initiatives.

JIM E. MEEKS JR. Managing partner, Northwestern Mutual of Memphis. Territory covers West Tennessee, Arkansas, North Mississippi, Southern Missouri. Business specializes in investment strategies and products, life insurance, employee and executive benefit programs, education funding, estate analysis, retirement analysis. Became managing partner in 2009. Has qualified for Million Dollar Round Table many times. JOHN PHILLIPS V Founding member and chief investment officer, Red Door Wealth Management. Graduate, University of Virginia. Company provides comprehensive asset management for personal advising, retirement plans, family office and business owners as well as maintaining a strategic relationship with accounting firm Cannon Wright Blount, PLLC. Named to “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Financial Analyst. Member, Thorn Society (MUS). Board member, Presbyterian Day School Alumni Association, MPACT Memphis, Nexus Leadership, Memphis Athletic Ministries, Osiris. DAVID PICKLER President and CEO, Pickler Wealth Advisors. Senior partner, The Pickler Law Firm and Pickler Accounting Advisors, Collierville. Named to Financial Times 400 Top Financial Advisors list, 2015; cited twice by Barron’s as among the top advisors in the state of Tennessee. Recipient, Altruism Award, Registered Rep magazine, 2011. President, American Public Education Foundation. CHARLES SIMS JR. President and CEO, Sims Financial Group. Certified Financial Planner. Fellow of Life Underwriter Training Council, Certified Mutual Funds Manager. Member, National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Life and qualifying member, Million Dollar Round Table. First African-American member, John Hancock’s Hall of Fame. Life and founding member, Crescent Club of Memphis. Board member, First American Bank and WKNO. DAVID WADDELL CEO, Waddell & Associates. B.A., Economics, University of the South; M.B.A., Babson College. Certified Financial Planner. Contributor, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fox News. Named “Top 40 Under 40,” Small Business Awards Finalist, Executive of the Year, Memphis Business Journal. Past chairman, New Memphis, RISE Foundation. Board member, MIFA. President’s Council, Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Founding president, MPACT Memphis.

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Memphis boasts an array of higher education institutions. You can pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in virtually all disciplines. You can go to a school and begin your learning adventure as you gradually decide what you want to achieve. You can work toward a strong liberal arts education, or set your sights on science or math. You can study to be an artist or musician, or enter the field of medicine or law. And those directing the institutions of higher learning in our city and region must bring the right attributes to the job and commit themselves to students’ success. Whether they run a small college or a sprawling university, the POWER PLAYERS in this category are masters of organization with keen intellects and an eye for what makes a campus conducive to learning. ROBIN COLWELL Campus director, Memphis Campus, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide. B.S., English, Franciscan University of Steubenville; M.S., Management, Embry-Riddle. Board member, CSCMP Mid-South. Member, Greater Memphis Chamber, Trafﬁc Club of Memphis, JETs Memphis, Memphis World Trade Club, Memphis College Consortium, FedEx Services College Consortium, Memphis Talent Dividend. Named to 2012 “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. DANIEL (JAY) EARHEART-BROWN President and professor of theology, Memphis Theological Seminary. Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia; M.Div., Memphis Theological Seminary. Ordained Minister, Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Serves on denomination’s Theology and Social Concerns Committee and Uniﬁcation Task Force. Visiting Accreditation Team member, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Association of Theological Schools. 2013 Executive Class, Leadership Memphis. DR. TRACY D. HALL President, Southwest Tennessee Community College. Bachelor’s, University of Missouri-St. Louis; master’s, Wichita State University; Doctoral, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia. Former vice president of academic affairs, St. Louis Community College-Forest Park. Member, Higher Learning Commission Peer Review Corps., American Association of Women in Community Colleges, Missouri Community College Association, National Council of Instructional Administrators.

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MARJORIE HASS President, Rhodes College. Bachelor’s, Master’s, and doctoral degree, Philosophy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Former president, Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Board member, Association of American Colleges & Universities. Former chair, Board of Directors, National Association of Independent Colleges & Universities. Former board member, Council for Independent Colleges. Served as presidential sponsor for Texas Women in Higher Education conference. LAURA HINE Interim president, Memphis College of Art. J.D., U of M. Formerly vice president of college advancement at MCA. Has experience in fundraising and senior executive roles at ﬁrms such as Arthur Andersen, Baker Donelson. As deputy director at Workforce Investment Network, helped stabilize and restructure the federally funded regional workforce development agency. DON W. JONES Assistant vice president, Enrollment and Student Services, Belhaven University. B.S., Bethel University; Ed.S., Arkansas State University; M.B.A., University of Phoenix. Coauthor of two textbooks. Recipient, White House Volunteer Service Award, University of Phoenix Service Award, Mississippi Emergency Service Medal. Member, Golden Key, Phi Delta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Societies. Commander, 210th MP Battalion for the Mississippi State Guard. Rotarian/member, Lion’s Club.

BETTY SUE MCGARVEY President, Baptist College of Health Sciences. Ph.D., Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Recipient, Distinguished Alumni Award, UTHSC School of Nursing, U of M Lowenberg School of Nursing, Baptist College of Health Sciences. Member, Memphis Rotary Club. Board member, Leadership Memphis. ANDREA LEWIS MILLER President, Lemoyne-Owen College. M.S. and Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology. Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. More than 20 years experience in higher education. Former chancellor,Capital Area Technical College, Baton Rouge Community College. Former vice president for Academic and Student Affairs, STCC. Assistant Dean, College of Human and Community Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno. LEWIS REICH President, Southern College of Optometry. Graduate, University of California at Berkeley. Completed Residency in low vision rehabilitation, Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Vice chair, Memphis Medical District Collaborative. Secretary, Board of Directors, National Board of Examiners in Optometry. Chair, Academy’s Maintenance of Fellowship Committee. Fellow, American Academy of Optometry. Former chair, Optometry Admissions Test Committee, Chief Academic Ofﬁcers, OptomCAS committee. Research funded by National Eye Institute, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. DAVID RUDD President, University of Memphis. Ph.D., Psychology, University of TexasAustin. Administration, research, and teaching spans almost three decades including in Texas and Utah. Led U of M to record $38 million in fundraising his ﬁrst year. Efforts at campus expansion and growth are under way, with almost $500M in public and private funds to be expended on campus and the neighboring university district. Leading efforts to grow university’s national footprint and research impact.

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Where you stay when you visit a city can make all the difference in your sojourn — and determine whether or not you will ever come back. POWER PLAYERS in the hospitality industry understand the importance of quality lodging and conference accommodations in a tourist destination such as Memphis. From downtown to East Memphis and beyond, this city knows how to take care of you. Even if you’re a Memphian, chances are you’ve encountered the expert work of some of these hospitality leaders at conventions or events around town. Their leadership has earned them and their facilities recognition and awards in a highly competitive business. Next time you plan a vacation, you might consider spending a weekend in a local inn or hotel. You might be surprised to enjoy a relaxing “getaway” right here in your very own city. Just ask any of these folks. CINDY BREWER Principal and cofounder, LEO Events. Graduate, University of Tennessee. LEO has produced some of the city’s largest events, such as Le Bonheur’s grand opening, AutoZone’s national sales meeting, various festivals. Former board chair, Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau. Former member, Memphis Chamber Small Business Council. Graduate, Leadership Academy 2010 Masters program. Recipient, Memphis Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40,” 2004; Darrell A. Ledet award. DOUGLAS BROWNE General manager, The Peabody Memphis. President, Peabody Hotels & Resorts. Educated, Paul Smith’s College, Hotel and Restaurant Administration, and Florida International. Chairman, Tennessee Hospitality Association, AutoZone Liberty Bowl. Named Peabody Hotel Group’s “General Manager of the Year” and received award of same name from Metropolitan Memphis Hotel and Lodging Association, Tennessee Hospitality Association. Recipient, Spirit of Memphis Award, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau. PACE COOPER President and CEO, Cooper Hotels. B.A., Columbia College; M.B.A., Harvard. Recipient, Developer of the Year Award, Hilton Worldwide, Hotel Owner of the Year Award, HotelWorld Network. Member, Tennessee, American Hotel and Lodging Associations. Chairman, Multi Franchise Organization. Member, Hilton Advisory Board. Past chairman, International Association of Holiday Inns. Commissioner and vice chairman, Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority. Partner, Memphis Grizzlies. President, Baron Hirsch Synagogue. 68 |

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ANGIE HINES General manager, Madison Hotel. Graduate, Bradley University / Goizueta Business School at Emory University. At Madison Hotel four years, and with Rebel Hospitality ten years. Services include hotel, restaurant, event space, rooftop venue. Best of the Best Winner – IHG. Member, CHA, TNHLA, MMHLA. Active with MDA, Boys & Girls Clubs, Women’s Heart Association, Cancer Foundation League. MATT HUSS General manager, Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel. Recipient, Employee Satisfaction Hotel of the Year (Davidson Hotels) 2006, 2012, and 2013; Director of Meeting/Convention Services of the year for Wyndham International 1996; Agoura Hills Business of the year 2012; Conejo Valley sponsor of the year. Manager of the Year, Wyndham Milwaukee center 1994. Board member, planning committee, MMHLA. THOMAS B. JOHNSON Managing director, Wilson Conference Center Group, Holiday Inn U of M, Fogelman Executive Conference Center. B.B.A., Baylor University. Recipient, eight Torchbearer Awards from InterContinental Hotels Group. Member, Metropolitan Memphis Hotel and Lodging Association, International Association of Conference Centers. Member, Advisory Board, Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality & Resort Management. PATRICK JORDAN General manager, Westin, Beale Street. 27 years experience in hospitality industry. Former vice president of operations, Ameristar Casino; GM for several international hotel brands. Board member, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau, Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality & Resort Management. Seven-time recipient, AAA Four Diamond Award for Quality and Service Excellence, four at the Westin Memphis Beale Street.

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KEVIN KANE President and CEO, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau. President of its subsidiary, MMG LLC. Graduate, U of M. Chairman, Destination Marketing Association International, Memphis Rock ’N’ Soul Museum. Board member, U.S. Travel Association, Blues Foundation, Riverfront Development Corporation, International Tennis Hall of Fame, Christian Brothers High School, MMHLA, Greater Memphis Chamber. PIERRE LANDAICHE Vice president and general manager, Memphis Management Group, Memphis Cook Convention Center, Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. Board member, Metropolitan Memphis Hotel and Lodging Association, Influence1 Foundation, Bridge Street Newspaper. Past president, Better Business Bureau of the MidSouth, Rotary Club of Memphis. Leadership Memphis Class of 2011. Named to “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. JACK SODEN CEO, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. Graduate, Regis University. Elvis Presley’s Memphis home opened on June 1982. Oversaw opening of The Guest House at Graceland (a $92 million resort hotel) and Elvis Presley’s Memphis (a multi-gallery entertainment complex across from the mansion) in 2016 in advance of the 40th anniversary of the superstar’s passing. Board member, Greater Memphis Chamber. Co-chair, Tennessee Tourism Committee.

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BILL SPENCER General manager, Memphis Hilton. B.A., Trevecca University in Nashville. Certiﬁed Hotel Administrator. With Davidson Hotels for 18 years. Former general manager, Hilton Raleigh Durham Airport. Hotel specializes in banquet catering functions for companies and social events; works speciﬁcally with corporations, social groups, athletic teams. Former president, Hotel Motel Associations. Board member, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau. Member, Skål International. WAYNE TABOR General manager, Holiday Inn Select Downtown. Attended Holiday Inn University General Manager’s School. Recipient, Billy Hicks Award, Memphis CVB; Fiduciary Responsibility Award, Hospitality Management Advisors. Metropolitan Memphis Hotel and Lodging Association Award. Chairman, MMHLA. Member, Tennessee, American Hotel and Lodging Associations. Former board member, Fogelman YMCA, Memphis Restaurant Association.

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Independent Schools

You don’t want to get called out of class to report to the headmaster, but if you need someone to run an independent school, these are among the best. These heads of schools oversee academic and social advancement for around 18,000 of the city’s young people. The Memphis Association of Independent Schools believes the community benefits when smaller schools offer a variety of experiences that aren’t always available in public schools. Tuition costs are wide-ranging but can go upwards from $20,000 in this highly competitive area. Enrollment in private schools for pre-K to 12th grade nationwide went from 7.3 million in 2006 to 6.3 million in 2016 — a drop of 14 percent — according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So for these POWER PLAYERS to be successful, they have to stay on their toes. JIM FERGUSON President and head of school, Northpoint Christian School. B.S., Mississippi State University; M.E., University of Mississippi. NCS is a Christ-centered, college preparatory school located in Southaven, MS serving students in grades K3-12. Desoto Times Tribune 2017 “Best High School.” Ranked #4 Best Private K-12 School in MS, #2 Best Christian High School in MS, niche.com. Member of Hernando, Olive Branch, Southaven Chambers of Commerce, Southaven Rotary Club, DeSoto County Economic Development Council. STEVEN HANCOCK Headmaster, Presbyterian Day School. B.M., Music Education and Violin Performance, Lawrence University; M.S., Curriculum Design, University of Illinois. PDS is a Christian school for boys age two through grade six. School staff are experts on the education of young boys from all walks of life. Notable alumni include Fred Smith, PItt Hyde, Paul Tudor Jones. Board member, Memphis Youth Symphony Program and Neighborhood Christian Centers. THOMAS HOOD Headmaster, St. Agnes Academy - St. Dominic School. B.S., Engineer Mechanics, United States Military Academy. M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. School founded on four pillars of Dominican charism: study, prayer, community, and service. School works with students from 2k-12th grade to prepare them to be leaders across all sectors. Member, National Association of Independent Schools, Southern Association of Independent Schools, Tennessee Association of Independent Schools,

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Memphis Association of Independent Schools, National Catholic Educators Association, Dominican Association of Secondary Schools. Works with veterans’ causes and Catholic ministries. Retired Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army. RALPH JANIKOWSKY Headmaster, Westminster Academy. Westminster seek to communicate the vision of classical Christian education to churches in Memphis and the greater Memphis community in order to encourage like-minded parents to partner with us in raising up the next generation of faithful Christians and church leaders. School currently constructing a new playground and after-school care facility. Commanded two U.S. Navy warships and earned numerous accolades, including two Legions of Merit. Westminster selected as 2017 and 2018 “Best Places to Work,” Commercial Appeal. THOR KVANDE Headmaster, Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School. B.A., History, Muhlenburg College. Master’s, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Delaware. Former dean of middle school beginning in 2004. Promoted to headmaster in 2011. Former positions at St. John’s Episcopal School (Olney, MD), The Independence School (Newark, DE) Woodland Country Day School (Bridgeton, NJ). ANN M. LAURY Head of school, Christ the King Lutheran School. B.S., Education, U of M; Double Master’s, Instruction and Curriculum, Educational Leadership and Administration, Cumberland University. Extensive teaching background in Memphis, Mississippi, and Nashville public

schools. Teacher and early childhood director at Christ the King before becoming head of school in 2016. Recipient, Cummins business award. Member, NAEYC, LEA, NLSA. AdvancEd Training For School Accreditation. Certiﬁed Apple Teacher. Involved with Make-A-Wish, Christ the King Youth Ministries, Job Comfort Dog Ministry. Clinical supervisor, Western Governors University. STUART MCCATHIE Headmaster, Lausanne Collegiate School. Bachelor’s, Education, Lancaster University, U.K. Master’s, School Administration, University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Many years of education experience in the United Kingdom, Bahamas, and United States. Former dean of students, Indian Mountain School, Lakeville, Conn. Former headmaster, the Oakwood School, Greenville, NC. WENDELL MEADOWS Head of school, First Assembly Christian School. B.S., Southeastern University; M.S., Education, Troy State University. Co-education and multi-denominational school for Pre K-12th grade on 55-acre campus. During tenure, school has doubled enrollment, expanded campus, added multiple athletic and ﬁne arts options, and more. School continuously accredited by AdvancEd; member, MAIS. Faculty and staff have heavy volunteer presence at organizations like St. Jude, Le Bonheur, Madonna Learning Center, Habitat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House, Su Casa Family Ministries, and many other local and international civic causes. MARK MERRILL President, Briarcrest Christian School. B.S., Christian Brothers University; M.B.A., U of M. BCS provides an excellent, college prep, Christian education to students across Memphis. Has consistently increased market share in a declining private school market over past decade. New York University Howard Stern Distinguished Lecturer. School a “Best Christian Workplace,” 2007-2017. 2016 and 2017 Best Private School in Memphis, Memphis Parent. Best Private School, Memphis Favorite, The Commercial

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ADAM MOORE Head of school, Woodland Presbyterian School. B.S., Education and Social Studies, Mississippi College. Master’s, Education, Union University. Former president, Memphis Association of Independent Schools. Board member, Tennessee Association Independent Schools.

PETE SANDERS Headmaster, Memphis University School, a college-preparatory school for boys in grades 7-12, founded in 1893. B.A., History, St. Lawrence University; M.A., History, Queen’s University; M.Ed., Administration and Supervision, University of Virginia. Over 30 years of experience in independent school education and administration, with previous leadership roles at Collegiate School (Richmond, VA), Brunswick School (Greenwich, CT), University School (Fort Lauderdale, FL), Christ Church Episcopal School (Greenville, SC), before joining MUS in 2017.

J. ROSS PETERS Head of school, St. George’s Independent School. B.A., English, Sewanee; M.Ed., English Education, University of Georgia. St. George’s is a PK-12 Episcopal school that combines agile teaching and active learning. PAGE Star Teacher, 2015. William G. Hutchins Mastership Award, Asheville School, 2001. Board member, BRIDGES USA, Tennessee Association of Independent Schools. Member, Le Bonheur Family Partners Council. Member, NAES, NAIS, EAB, NPEA, MTC, INDEX. DANIEL PETERSON Head of school, Evangelical Christian School. B.A., Carson-Newman University; M.Div. in Theology and Ph.D. in Leadership and Christian Education from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Has presented at several national and regional conferences and completed Colson Fellows National Program. In the community, serves as elder at Harvest Church. Hosts “Equip,” a weekly podcast purposed to think and teach in light of a Christian worldview. KRISTEN RING Head of school, Hutchison School. B.A., Master’s, English, Wake Forest University. Doctorate of Education, High Point University. Extensive education experience as senior administrator, teacher, coach in private, independent schools in Alabama, North Carolina. Began career as an English teacher in 2006. Recipient, Waddill Excellence in Teaching Award for exemplary

KATHY SCHERER Principal, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School. Bachelor’s, Illinois State University; Master’s, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. School about to unveil Project Lead the Way to help give students the skills to solve problems and build for success. Named as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence while qualifying as “Exemplary High Performing.” SFA is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Charter member, National Catholic Education Association. Under Scherer’s leadership, many students turn out to volunteer for organizations like St. Jude, Memphis VA Medical Center, David Cervetti Animal Rescue Club. ALBERT THROCKMORTON Head of school, St. Mary’s Episcopal School. B.A., Architecture; Master’s, Teaching: English and Social Studies, Rice University. Head of school since 2012. The mission of St. Mary’s Episcopal School is to provide a superior educational experience for girls which will encourage and enable each student to reach her individual potential. Trustee, National Association of Independent Schools. Board vice president, One Schoolhouse. Member, Country Day School Headmasters’

Association and Memphis Association of Independent Schools. Elder, Second Presbyterian Church. Active with the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools and National Association of Episcopal Schools. BRYAN WILLIAMS Head of school, Christ Methodist Day School. B.A., History, U of M; Master’s, Teaching, Christian Brothers University; Doctorate of Education, Union University. CMDS devoted to exceptional Christian elementary education for boys and girls. Uses STEAM initiative to combine academic elements with a hands-on, inquiry-based curriculum. “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Treasurer, MAIS. Involved with Dorothy Day House, Bellevue Baptist Church, Forrest Spence Fund. TRENT WILLIAMSON Head of school, Harding Academy. B.A., Harding University; M.A., History, U of M. Founding Director and Board Member, Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust. Coteaches Honors African-American History with Dr. Scott Frizzell. Harding recently announced a multi-year multi-phase campaign as part of its plan to house Sr. K–Grade 12 on one campus in East Memphis beginning in August 2018.

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Insiders

This is a new category in our annual listing of that’s not so much about who has a certain job title as it is about knowing what’s going on behind the scenes. These POWER PLAYERS are advisers and consultants who typically understand the intricacies of how things work in the public and private sectors, from policy to politics, and who makes those things work. They are the movers and shakers that other movers and shakers talk to. ROSHUN AUSTIN President/CEO, The Works, Inc. M.A., Urban Anthropology, U of M. B.A., Sociology-Anthropology, Middlebury College. Specializes in affordable housing development and community development ﬁnance. Board member, Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. Vice-chair, Blight Authority of Memphis, Explore Bike Share, Methodist Healthcare Foundation, Christian Community Foundation, ULI Memphis, Management Committee, BLDG Memphis. Former board member, Slingshot Memphis. Health, Educational and Housing Facilities Board, City of Memphis. Community Redevelopment Agency. Memphis Landmarks Commission. STEVE BARLOW Neighborhood Preservation, Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee promotes neighborhood revitalization by collaboratively developing practical and sustainable resolutions to blighted properties and to the systems that lead to widespread neglect, vacancy and abandonment of real estate. The Organization focuses on policy advocacy as well as implementing and documenting replicable comprehensive neighborhood improvement projects.

ERIC GOTTLIEB Associate professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Rhodes College. B.S., Environmental Science, Rhodes College. M.S., Mathematics, University of Washington. Ph. D., Mathematics, University of Miami. Co-founder, Overton Park Alliance. Former ﬁrst vice president, Evergreen Historic District Association. TOM JONES Principal at Smart City Consulting, primary writer and editor of Smart City Memphis blog, author of City Journal column in Memphis magazine, and author of Shelby Farms Park: Elevating a City. B.A., Journalism, U of M. Attended courses in urban issues at Vanderbilt University and Tulane University. Former board member at Downtown Memphis Commission, National Civil Rights Museum, UrbanArt Commission, and Urban Land Institute-Memphis, and former executive committee member of Memphis in May International Festival and Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau.

KATIE MIDGELEY Director of research and evaluation, Plough Foundation. M.S., College of Arts & Sciences, The University of Alabama. B.S., Mississippi State University. Joined Plough Foundation in 2011. Formerly with JUSTIN ENTZMINGER U of M, The Urban Child Institute. Board member, Grantmakers in Aging, Family Safety Center. Executive director, Innovate Memphis. Former board member, Shelby County Books from Birth, B.A., English, Georgetown University, Wolf River Conservancy. Mayoral appointee to Community M.B.A., Entrepreneurship, Massey School of Business, Belmont University. Healthcare Steering Committee, Aging Commission of MidSouth Advisory Council. Founding member, Overton Park Advisory Committee, Data Governance Conservancy Roots Program. Graduate, New Memphis for City of Memphis. Strategy Advisor, Fellows Program, Leadership Memphis Executive Program. Music Export Memphis. Advisory Committee, Center for “20 Under 30,” Memphis Flyer . “Top 40 Under 40,” Applied Earth Sciences and Engineering Research, U of Memphis Business Journal. “Best Individual: Adult”, M. Member, Smart Cities Collaborative, Bloomberg The Spark Awards. Philanthropies Innovation Cohort.

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ERIC ROBERTSON President and CEO, Community LIFT & River City Capital Investment Corp. Board chairman, Memphis Branch of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Board member, Soulsville Foundation, Slingshot Memphis, Memphis 3.0. Former board chairman, Leadership Memphis. Recipient of the Memphis Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40” Award, the Tri-State Defender’s inaugural 50 Men of Excellence Award and an Outstanding Alumni Award from U of M College of Arts & Sciences, where he received BA, Anthropology. Graduate, NeighborWorks America’s Achieving Excellence executive education program at Harvard Kennedy School. SUSAN ADLER THORP Owner, Susan Adler Thorp Communications. Former political columnist, The Commercial Appeal and political/government analyst for local media. University of Missouri, Bachelor of Journalism. Board member, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Temple Israel Museum. Member, Brooks Museum Acquisitions Committee. Chair, Dixon Gallery & Gardens Visual Arts Committee. Former member, Temple Israel Board of Trustees, Memphis Jewish Home, Plough Towers, Metal Museum, Memphis Jewish Community Center, Urban Arts Commission. MARK YATES Program manager, All World Project Management. Founder, Memphis Youth Summer Business Experience, The Enlightenment Center, LES mental health outpatient care for children and families. B.A., Economics and Finance, Howard University. Executive M.B.A. Owen Graduate School of Business, Vanderbilt University. Founder, Voices for Memphis’ Children. Chairman, River City Capital. Former chief of staff and faculty, LeMoyne Owen College; chief of staff U.S. House of Representatives. Former chairman, Shelby County Democratic Party. Served multiple positions at First Horizon. Former vice chair, Industrial Development Board. Former treasurer Shelby County Health and Education Board. Former commissioner, Shelby County Land Use Control Board.

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Goodness knows that most of us have spent at least a few hours in front of the computer, staring at a spinning beach ball or a stagnant hourglass, wondering, “How does this make my life easier, again?” But the truth is, without the help of complex programming and databases and networks, we would be a fraction as efficient and nowhere near as connected. Enter Information Technology professionals. If your business needs help with its technology infrastructure, data storage, or any problems that may arise, don’t succumb to the whims of an inadequate system or the limits of your own abilities. Call in the experts. These are the POWER PLAYERS in Information Technology. Whether they deal in website software, data protection, audiovisual integration, product development, or any other tool of the technical world, these folks know their stuff. STEVE BARGIACCHI Co-founder, ProTech. Founded company 25 years ago and has since grown it into a top MidSouth technology and talent solutions company. Board chairman, Boys & Girls Club. Through his leadership, ProTech received the Boys & Girls Clubs’ highest awards of National Silver Medallion, National Award of Merit along with the Torch Award for dedication to corporate involvement. Board director, Paragon Bank. Charter board member, Greater Memphis IT Council. Member, Ingram Micro’s Data Center Advisory Board. GARY BELLANTI Owner and president, Open Road Technologies. Graduate, U of M. Started career as national business development manager with Vanstar/Apple. Open Road Technologies partners with most major technology vendors to provide services to the SMB, education, government markets. Member of MMHLA, Sales and Marketing Society. Civic activities include MDA, Special Olympics, Child Advocacy Center. WAYNE COOK Chairman, founder, and CEO, Cook Systems International Inc. Has more than 35 years of IT leadership and service experience. Founded company in 1994. Former president, Eagle Systems Technology; COO, SCB; director of MIS, First Tennessee Bank. Ensures that Cook Systems International has exceptional operational talent and technology to deliver the most successful IT solutions to Fortune 1000 clients and government entities. 74 |

J. MICHAEL DRAKE CEO, masterIT LLC. B.B.A., Finance, U of M. Founded company in 2005 to serve the 20-500 person organization with a complete outsourced IT process providing dramatically better results through cloud, managed, and mobile services. Former 13-year president/ CEO, Econocom USA, Inc. Inaugural MSPmentor Hall of Fame member for top managed service experts, entrepreneurs, executives globally. Board member, Methodist Healthcare Foundation. NICK GANT President and founder of Gant Systems. Actively managing clients in six states. Offering managed IT services, cloud, backup and disaster recovery solutions. Formed company in 2007 and has grown to perennially recognized high performing small business. Microsoft SMB Champion Partner. Previously helped build Business Continuity Program for First Tennessee Bank. Current board chair, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of West Tennessee. Executive Board member, Clean Memphis. Former board member, Building Greater Communities, Inc. “Top 40 Under 40.” JAY MYERS President and CEO, Interactive Solutions, Inc. Founded company in 1996 with focus on videoconferencing and audio-visual integration. Author, Keep Swinging, winner of 2010 Ethan Award; Hitting the Curveballs. Inducted into 2011 Christian Brothers High School Hall of Fame. 2018 inductee, Society of Entrepreneurs. Board member, BancorpSouth, Better Business Bureau of the MidSouth Executive Committee. Former board chairman,

Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South. Former board member, Boy Scouts of America Chickasaw Council. BRIAN PRENTICE Managing partner, Vaco Risk Solutions. B.S., Management Information Systems, Finance, Fordham University; M.B.A., Information & Communication Systems, Financial Management, Fordham University. More than 25 years of IT and business consulting leadership experience. Former board member, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Volunteer activities include Room in the Inn, Boy Scouts of America. SYLVESTER TATE President and CEO, Tate Computer Systems, Inc. Educated at U of M, Southwest Tennessee Community College, U.S. Navy, Tennessee Technology Center. Graduated Executive Management Institute, Christian Brothers University. Company is Apple Authorized Reseller and Repair. Recipient, Minority Business of the Year Award, Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum. Alumnus of the Year, Southwest Tennessee Community College. Board member, Southwest Tennessee Community College. PAUL TOMES President and CEO, WorldSpice Technologies. Bachelor of Computer Science, U of M; degrees in electrical and computer engineering technology, State Technical Institute. Manages ongoing strategic direction of the company, which provides Data Center Co-Location, Cloud/Virtual computing, Integrated Voice/Data (VOIP) systems, high speed internet, Wide Area Network services. Board member of ISP/Telco organization FISPA.org. Board member, Memphis IT Council. ADAM UNDERWOOD Partner and President, Mellon Consulting Group, LLC. B.B.A., Rhodes College. Specializes in custom designed medical software applications, database integration, website development and marketing, disaster recovery solutions. Board member, Mid-South Medical Group Management Association, Leadership Germantown, Germantown United Methodist Church. Active Lifeblood donor. JIM VAN DE VUURST Principal owner, Vanick Digital. Graduate, U of M. Company provides web-based software, websites, mobile application development services, SAP consulting services. Active with Incarnation Catholic Church, Greater Memphis Chamber, Memphis IT Council, U of M BIT Advisory Council.

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How long should I be investing? What kind of returns can I expect? Am I putting too much money in one investment? How much risk am I willing to accept? As potential investors, we turn to the experts to handle some of our most important, and personal, financial questions, and to help us ensure, as much as possible, that our funds will carry us comfortably through our retirement years. These companies are not only helping hardworking residents make the most of their dollars, they’re also investing in the city and helping the local economy grow. Keeping an eye on your money is a full-time job; it would be impossible for us to keep track of every rise and fall in the global economy. We trust these POWER PLAYERS to do it for us, and as far as we’re concerned, their stock is rising. JOSEPH R. HEINZ Executive director, UBS Financial Services Inc. B.B.A, Iowa; Master of Management, Duke University. Firm provides tailored investment service including asset management and estate planning. Specializes in wealth management and financial planning. Certified Financial Planner. Awarded Wealth Management Executive Education Certificate, Directors Council from UBS Financial Services. Married to Mary Jo Heinz, with six children, 11 grandchildren. HAMPTON HOLCOMB Financial advisor/investment specialist, Memphis office, Strategic Financial Partners. D.D.S., UTHSC. Company specializes in high net worth individuals and business transition planning. Metlife Securities Masters Level Achievement for eight years. Founding Elder, Fellowship Church. Supporter of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Board member, Agape, Hope Christian Community Foundation, Downline, Young Life Memphis Urban, Northrise University Zambia Africa. LANCE HOLLINGSWORTH Principal, senior vice president, and chief investment officer, Summit Asset Management LLC. B.B.A., magna cum laude, U of M. Certified Financial Planner professional. With firm since 1995. Active in St. Francis Home and School Association, St. Vincent de Paul, Memphis chapter of Families with Children from China. Volunteers as youth basketball coach and with youth golf development. Member, Tiger Scholarship Fund.

MICHAEL E. KISBER President, FTN Financial, a division of First Tennessee Bank with average daily trading volume of $5.5 billion. Marketing degree, U of M. Joined FTN Financial in 1993. Awarded recognition of Colonel Aide de Camp, highest honor to a Tennessee citizen for outstanding achievement and civic contribution in 2013. Member, U of M Board of Visitors. Member, Financial Markets Association Foundation Board of Directors. ARI M. LITVIN Senior vice president and complex manager, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. B.A., Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder; California Lutheran University M.B.A. Program. Graduate, American College’s Certiﬁed Financial Planner curriculum. Named to list of Wall Street Top 100 Branch Managers. Wells Fargo Advisors Premier Manager Award Winner. Branch Manager Development Committee. Crescent Club Board of Governors. Member, ASPCA. Supporter, Habitat for Humanity. MARK A. MEDFORD President and CEO, Vining Sparks. Master’s, University of Mississippi. Certiﬁed Public Accountant and accredited by American Institute of CPAs. Former president and CEO, FTN Financial. Former managing partner, National REIT Leader, National Bank and Thrift Tax Leader. Served on Southeast’s Merger and Acquisition Team, National Securitization Team with KPMG. Chairman, Regional Bond Dealers Association. Former board member, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

RANDY PATTON Branch manager and senior vice president, Investments, Raymond James & Associates. B.B.A., Economics, U of M. Specializes in ﬁnancial planning, asset management, investment banking. Member, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Compliance and Legal Society, Economic Club of Memphis. Private Client Group awards for Management, 1994 and 2000, and Compliance, 1997. Active volunteer, Porter Leath, Italian Greyhound Club of America Rescue. DUNCAN F. WILLIAMS President and CEO, Duncan-Williams, Inc. Business Marketing degree, University of Alabama. Former member, FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council. Former chairman and member, FINRA’s District 5 Business Conduct Committee. Member and past chairman, New Memphis. Advisory Board member, SunTrust Bank. Member, MCVB Board of Directors. Board of Directors Executive Committee, Greater Memphis Chamber; co-chair, Chairman’s Circle. 2012 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business. 2013 Inductee, Society of Entrepreneurs. Former member, Economic Club of Memphis Board. STEVEN WISHNIA President and managing director, Highland Capital Management, LLC. B.B.A., Pace University. Founded Highland Capital in 1987. Registered Investment Adviser, managing equity, ﬁxed-income, short-term cash portfolios for endowments and foundations, institutions, municipalities, high net worth clients. Chairman, Pension and OPEB Committee, MLGW. Trustee, Plough Foundation. GARY WUNDERLICH Founder and CEO, Wunderlich Securities, Inc. since 1996. Member, B. Riley Financial, Inc. Board of Directors. B.A., Economics, University of Virginia, 1992; M.B.A., U of M, 1995. U of M Entrepreneur of the Year 2009. Society of Entrepreneurs board member and 2014 Inductee. Industry leadership: SIFMA National Board of Directors and Regional Firms Committee; founding member and board Member, American Securities Association; former Chair, FINRA District 5 Committee. Board member Campbell Foundation and ArtsMemphis.

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Law: Business Litigation

In the grayscale world of business law, you’re going to need someone who can discern just what victory is — and how best to achieve it. When a case goes to court, not losing is often a victory. And unlike the cases in television dramas, many can drag on — which means you’ll need an expert who knows when to settle and when to keep negotiating. In compiling this POWER PLAYERS list, we set to fi nd out: Who are the top local lawyers when you must go to trial or argue before a judge? Who’s the one person you want as your general when you wade into legal battle? Who’s the one you pray you never fi nd yourself opposite in a court of law? Who can help you make the tough decisions that are in your fi rm’s best interests? Check out these folks. You may be calling on one someday. LEO BEARMAN JR. Senior counsel, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC. J.D., Harvard. Litigator of the Year, Tennessee Bar Association; listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Mid-South Super Lawyers. Former president, Tennessee Junior, Memphis, Shelby County Bar Associations. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Elected member, International Association of Insurance Counsel, American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Recipient, Pillars of Excellence Award, U of M Alumni Association.

ALBERT C. HARVEY Partner, Lewis Thomason. B.S., J.D., UT. Areas of practice include business and commercial, construction, healthcare, intellectual property, product and professional liability. Former president, Memphis, Tennessee Bar Associations. Former member, American Bar Association Board of Governors. Recipient, Lawyers’ Lawyer Award, Memphis Bar Association. Former chairman, Tennessee Bar Foundation. Retired from U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Major General.

NATHAN BICKS Member, Burch, Porter & Johnson, PLLC. B.A., Brown; J.D., Georgetown. Practice focuses on complex litigation with emphasis on white-collar crime, healthcare fraud, class-action matters. Named by BusinessTN as one of “150 Best Lawyers in Tennessee.” Serves as town attorney for Collierville. Former appointee, hearing panelist, Tennessee Supreme Court Board of Professional Responsibility. President, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Past president, Memphis Jewish Community Center.

JOHN J. HEFLIN III Member, Bourland, Heﬂin, Alvarez, Minor & Matthews, PLC. B.A., J.D., Vanderbilt. Areas of practice include complex commercial litigation, breach of contract, fraud, insurance, intellectual property, securities, construction. Chair, ﬁrm’s litigation practice. Former president, Memphis Bar Association. AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Mid-South Super Lawyers.

RICHARD GLASSMAN Senior shareholder and president, Glassman, Wyatt, Tuttle & Cox, PC. J.D., U of M Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Practice devoted to business and professional liability/ malpractice litigation in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas. Certiﬁed Civil Trial Specialist, Civil Pretrial Practice Advocate. Fellow, Tennessee and Memphis Bar Foundation. Member, Litigation Counsel of America, American Board of Trial Advocates. Adjunct professor of Law-Insurance Law. Recipient, 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award, U of M.

MICHELE HOWARD-FLYNN Managing partner, HF Law Group, PLLC. B.A., Political Science and History, Morehead State University; J.D., Tulane University. Practice areas include business litigation, estate planning, probate and estate administration. Past President, Association for Women Attorneys. Member, Tennessee and American Associations for Justice, Tennessee Bar Association. Member, House of Delegates, Memphis Bar Association. Past board member, Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women.

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MICHAEL G. MCLAREN Member, Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, PC. B.A., Yale University; J.D., Loyola University. Practices in federal and state litigation, commercial litigation, professional liability, insurance coverage, environmental law, construction law, fidelity and surety law. Former vice president and general counsel, Wright Medical Technology. Named in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America. Appeared in films such as A Time to Kill, The Firm, and The People vs. Larry Flynt. JOHN MCQUISTON II Shareholder, Evans Petree, PC. B.A., Rhodes College; graduate, U.S. Naval Justice School; J.D., Vanderbilt. Experience includes banking, construction, securities, fraud, antitrust, breach of fiduciary duties, e-commerce. Named one of top 100 lawyers in Tennessee, top 50 lawyers in the Mid-South, top 15 lawyers in Memphis. Mediator for FINRA. Former director, Memphis Bar Association. Former chairman, Tennessee Bar Association’s Section on Anti-trust and Business Torts. Former chairman, St. Mary’s Episcopal School. Founding member, Society of Entrepreneurs. ROBERT F. MILLER Member, Farris Bobango, PLC. B.A., Vanderbilt; J.D., U of M. Specializes in general civil litigation, commercial litigation, railroad litigation, construction litigation, bankruptcy law, insurance defense litigation. Member, Memphis, Tennessee, American Bar Associations. Honored numerous times in Mid-South Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America. Former member and chairman, Board of Directors, St. Agnes/St. Dominic Schools.

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RICHARD J. MYERS Member, Apperson Crump, PLC. B.A., Loma Linda University, M.A., University of Chicago; J.D., Cornell School of Law. Areas of practice include litigation, real estate, public law and governmental relations. Member, Memphis Bar Association. Joined ﬁrm in 1997. Serves as city attorney for Oakland, Tennessee. Elected member, World Cataract Foundation Board of Directors. Advisory Board member, U of M’s Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. RANDALL D. NOEL Partner, Butler Snow, LLP. J.D., University of Mississippi. Practice includes business litigation, data security, products defense. Listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, Lawdragon, Super Lawyers. Former president, Tennessee Bar Association, American Counsel Association, Tennessee Legal Community Foundation. Fellow, American, Tennessee, Memphis Bar Foundations. Chair, Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments. LUCIAN T. PERA Partner, Adams and Reese, LLP. A.B., Princeton; J.D., Vanderbilt. Focuses practice on commercial litigation, media law, legal ethics work. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers, and BusinessTN. Member, American Law Institute. Recipient, President’s Award, Tennessee Bar Association; Sam A. Myar Jr. Memorial Award, Memphis Bar Association; Justice Joseph W. Henry Award for Outstanding Legal Writing. Former president, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. President, Tennessee Coalition for Open Government. Former treasurer, American Bar Association. President, Tennessee Bar Association. GLEN G. REID Senior counsel, Wyatt Tarrant & Combs. Member, Intellectual Property Protection and Litigation Service Team. J.D., U of M. Areas of practice include banking litigation, commercial litigation, products liability litigation, white collar criminal defense. AV Peer Review Rating, MartindaleHubbell. Recognized as Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation in 2017. Named 2015 Banking & Finance,

Securities Lawyer of the Year, 2014 Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year, The Best Lawyers in America. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Master, Leo Bearman Sr. Chapter, American Inns of Court. Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers. JOHN C. SPEER Member, Bass, Berry & Sims. J.D., University of Kentucky. Practice focused on business litigation. Represents banks and other ﬁnancial institutions in disputes involving commercial loan and public bond defaults and federal and state laws and regulations. Also represents companies in critical business disputes. Recognized by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, and Mid-South Super Lawyers. Memberships include: Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, Inns of Court (Master), Memphis Bar Foundation, Memphis Symphony Orchestra (Board/Executive Committee), and Jacob’s Ladder Community Development Corporation (Advisor).

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DAVID WADE Director and shareholder, Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, PC. J.D., University of Memphis. Areas of practice include civil and criminal litigation, land use, and administrative law. AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell. A distinguished mediator for cases on state and federal levels. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Former president, Memphis Bar Association. Former chair, City of Memphis Civil Service Commission. Master and former president, American Inns of Court. Top 100, Tennessee Superlawyers. GEORGE WHEELER Member, Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, PLLC. B.S., with honors, UT-Knoxville; J.D., Vanderbilt. Areas of practice include business and corporate law, healthcare, intellectual property, personal injury. Member, Litigation and Health Law sections, American Bar Association. Member, Health Law section, Memphis Bar Association. Named to The Best Lawyers in America, Mid-South Super Lawyers. AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell.

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If you never have to call upon any of the professionals in Employment Law, count yourself fortunate. They navigate ordinances that uphold workers’ rights for better conditions and fair standards in the workplace and, inversely, the rights of employers to moderate the powers of workers’ organizations and to keep labor costs low. Some specialize in such on-the-job issues as harassment, discrimination, or wage and hour claims. Others focus on corporate compliance, business contracts, workers’ compensation, personal injury, or regulatory issues. But whether you’re the plaintiff or defendant in an employment-related dispute, or there’s a question concerning an employment contract, it’s good to have experts like these POWER PLAYERS around to lend a hand. W. KERBY BOWLING Shareholder, Evans Petree, PC. J.D., U of M. Serves as co-leader of Labor and Employment Law Practice Group. Worked at Kellogg as unionized laborer before campaigning against organized labor. Assists clients in remaining non-union and avoiding employment litigation. Admitted to practice before Tennessee Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Sixth Circuits. AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 for Administrative/ Regulatory Law and Labor Law-Management for the sixth year. Board member, National Foundation for Transplants. ALAN CRONE Attorney and founder, The Crone Law Firm, PLC. B.A., J.D., U of M. Licensed in Tennessee and Arkansas. Represents executives, employees, and entrepreneurs in employment and commercial litigation including wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, partnership and contractual disputes, non-competition enforcement and defense, overtime, wage and hour disputes, and more. Appointed chief counsel for Tennessee Department of Employment Security in 1995 by former Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist. Special counsel to the Mayor of Memphis. DONALD DONATI Co-founder, Donati Law Firm. J.D., Tennessee. Certiﬁed Trial Specialist. Certiﬁed Civil Pretrial Practice Advocacy. Member, Tennessee Association of Justice, National Employment Lawyers Association, American Inns of Court, NOVA. Named 2012 Memphis Lawyer of the Year, Employment Law-Individuals, The Best Lawyers in America. Named one of top 100 lawyers in Tennessee by 78 |

Mid-South Super Lawyers, one of top six lawyers in U.S. by Lawyers USA in 2006. EUGENE S. FORRESTER JR. Member, Farris Bobango, PLC. B.A., cum laude, Vanderbilt University; J.D., Washington and Lee University. Practice concentrates on employment, workers’ compensation, civil litigation. Member, Tennessee, Arkansas, Memphis Bar Associations. Former president, MBA Young Lawyers Division. Former chair, TBA Greater Access and Assistant Project. Named MBA 1994 Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year. Licensed in Tennessee, Arkansas. DEBORAH GODWIN Partner, Godwin, Morris, Laurenzi & Bloomﬁeld, P.C. B.A., magna cum laude, University of Michigan; J.D., Boston College. Areas of practice include ERISA, labor and employment, civil rights, personal injury. Director of ﬁrm’s ERISA Law Section. American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section and Committee on Developing Labor Law. Named to The Best Lawyers in America, Top 50 Women Attorneys in Mid-South Super Lawyers. AV-rated, Martindale-Hubble. MYRA HAMILTON General counsel, Hamilton Entertainment Employment Law, LLC. Practice areas include employment and labor, HR and corporate compliance, business contracts. Represents clients before the U.S. EEOC, Tennessee Human Rights Commission, various U.S. District Courts. Member, Memphis, American Bar Associations. Included on the Attorney Referral List with U.S. EEOC in several jurisdictions. Member, ABA Forum, Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity, ABA Presidential Advisory

Council on Diversity. Inducted into Top 100, The National Black Lawyers. 2017 Women of Excellence award, New Tri-State Defender. CHARLES HILL Member, Glankler Brown, PLLC. Practice includes employment law, broker/dealer litigation, contracts, and commercial litigation. Experience in litigation over restrictive covenants, covenants against disclosure of proprietary information, protection of trade secrets, creating social media policies. Member, Memphis and Tennessee Bar Associations and Defense Research Institute. Board member, Greater Memphis Chamber. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Named to The Best Lawyers in America. Board member, Youth Programs, Inc. Operator of FedEx/St. Jude Classic golf tournament. DAVID JAQUA Labor and Employment Group, Butler Snow LLP. Practice includes employment litigation (defense), arbitration and mediation, NLRB hearings, labor negotiations, representation campaigns, management counseling and training. AV Preeminent Rating, Martindale-Hubbell. Named to The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, MidSouth Super Lawyers. Fellow, American and Tennessee Bar Foundation. LISA KRUPICKA Member, Burch, Porter & Johnson, PLLC. Practice concentrates on employment litigation and business advising. Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Named to The Best Lawyers in America (2017 Memphis Management Employment Lawyer of the Year), “Top 100 Lawyers in Tennessee” in Mid-South Super Lawyers. Named to Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Former board member, Memphis Bar Association; former chair of Labor & Employment Section. Board and Executive Committee member, National Civil Rights Museum. LISA LICHTERMAN Shareholder, Littler Mendelson, PC. J.D., Vanderbilt University. Practice includes employment law and HR compliance. Selected Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Named to Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Frequently named to Mid-South Super Lawyers in Labor and Employment Law. Selected as a Mid-South Top 50 Women Attorneys for 2016 & 2017. MartindaleHubbell AV rating. Former board member, Memphis Bar Association; former chair of Labor & Employment section. Trustee, Pink Palace Museum.

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JAMES R. MULROY II Managing principal — Memphis, Jackson Lewis. B.A., Rhodes; M.B.A., U of M; J.D., UT-Knoxville. Practice includes class actions and complex litigation, general employment litigation, wage and hour. Member, Tennessee and American Bar Associations, DRI. Commander, Judge Advocate General Corps, U.S. Naval Reserve. AV Preeminent-rated Lawyer, Martindale-Hubble. Frequently named to The Best Lawyers in America, Mid-South Super Lawyers. DAN NORWOOD Partner, Norwood & Atchley. J.D., U of M. Represents clients involved in discrimination, retaliatory discharge for whistleblowing, workers’ compensation claims, breach of contract. Named to The Best Lawyers in America, MidSouth Super Lawyers in labor and employment law. Featured on cover of Memphis magazine as the “Giant Killer” for success in suing government, discriminating employers. Member, Memphis, Tennessee Bar Associations, National Employment Lawyers Association. ROBIN H. RASMUSSEN Founding member, Dinkelspiel Rasmussen & Mink, PLLC. B.A., J.D., U of M. Areas of practice include employment law, workers’ compensation, civil litigation. Boutique ﬁrm founded in 2010. Member of Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi, Federal Bar Associations. Licensed in Tennessee, Mississippi. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Real Estate Transactions. Certiﬁed Yoga Instructor. STEPHEN L. SHIELDS Founding partner, Jackson Shields Yeiser & Holt. Graduate, University of Toledo College of Law, Yale Law School. Practice represents employers in private and public sectors. President, Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators. Past president, Memphis Bar Foundation; past chair of Labor and Employment Law section. Member, Memphis, Tennessee, American Bar Associations. Author, Alternative Dispute Resolutions in Tennessee; Alternative Dispute Resolution: Staying in Business and Out of Court. BRUCE M. SMITH Member, Apperson Crump PLC. A.B., Duke University; J.D., U of M. General counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority. Practice includes employment law, litigation, transit law. Frequent lecturer on public transit system labor and regulatory issues, ADA regulations, legal ethics. Former chair, Transportation Research Board Committee on Transit and Intermodal Transportation Law. Former Hearing Panel member, Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Fellow, Tennessee Bar Foundation. Awarded Transportation Research Board 2017 Thomas B.

Deen Distinguished Lectureship. Named to Best Lawyers In America. JEFFREY C. SMITH Partner, Waller Lansden Dortsch & Davis. Practice includes employment law, commercial construction litigation, counsel in construction, equipment distribution, franchise, healthcare industries. Has defended employers against discrimination claims, unfair competition, wrongful termination. Member, American Bar Association’s Forum on Franchising, Appellate Practice Committee, Commercial and Business Litigation Committee. Board member, Tennessee Justice Center. JEFF WEINTRAUB Regional managing partner, Memphis ofﬁce of national management-side labor and employment law ﬁrm, Fisher Phillips. Represents employers in jury trials in employment lawsuits, FLSA collective actions, labor cases. Selected for HR Executive’s 2017 Top 100 Most Powerful Employment Lawyers in the United States, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Mid-South Super Lawyers, and World’s Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers (UK). Greater Memphis Chamber, Chairman’s Circle. Legal Advisor to Memphis SHRM Board. Licensed in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri. MURRAY B. WELLS Partner, Horne & Wells, PLLC. B.F.A, Westminster College; J.D., University of Arkansas (Student Bar Association president). Areas of practice include civil rights litigation, federal criminal defense, catastrophic injury. Named to Top 100 Lawyers - Civil Plaintiff. Admitted to practice in California, Tennessee, federal districts of California, Western and Middle Tennessee, Sixth Circuit Court of appeals, all state courts. Teaches CLE to other lawyers in a wide variety of litigation topics. EDWARD YOUNG Shareholder, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. B.S., U of M; J.D., Vanderbilt. Represents employers before NLRB in employment litigation, collective bargaining, labor arbitration. Achieved landmark judgment against the EEOC for $750,000. Led efforts for a food manufacturer in Ohio in a union campaign that involved 600 voters and communications in multiple languages, resulting in a vote in favor of the company. Member, Labor and Employment Law Section and Committee on Equal Employment Law, American Bar Association. Former president, Economic Club of Memphis, Memphis Jewish Federation.

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As the earth gets flatter and more crowded, businesses are profiting from emerging markets. For companies trying to reach customers, wherever they may be, the specialists they need are logistics service providers, aka third-party logistics (3PL) firms. An essential link in the supply chain, the best 3PLs know how to get the product where it needs to be in the most timely and cost-effective manner. Clients may contract with these POWER PLAYERS for storage, warehousing, order fulfilment, cartage, drayage, and delivery of countless kinds of goods via air, land, ocean, and river. There are also a host of dynamic trucking companies with local, regional, and national reach. If the world map is flat, globalization puts Memphis right in the middle. Crowded? Sounds like an opportunity. CHARLIE ANDREWS COO, Nickey Warehouses, Inc. B.B.A., Marketing, UT-Martin. Services include warehousing, order fulﬁllment, reverse logistics, international shipping, transportation management. Has been with company for more than 10 years. Member, International Warehouse & Logistics Association, Mid America CropLife Association, Southeast Warehouse Association, Warehousing Education and Research Council. LANNY CHALK Terminal manager, Fullen Dock and Warehouse, Inc. Attended Jacksonville State University. More than 20 years’ experience in freight, distribution, and warehousing industries. Member, former facility chairperson, Area Maritime Security Committee. Member, Greater Memphis Chamber, Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce. Fullen Dock is a full-service, intermodal river terminal and warehousing facility. Clients include barge brokers, freight forwarders, manufacturers requiring barge, harbor, and tug services, transshipment, trucking, storage. With Port 740, Inc., the company owns one tug. CHERYL BURCH CITRONE Partner and executive recruiter, Vaco Logistics & Operations. B.P.S., U of M. Board chair, Society of Female Transportation Professionals. Member, National Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. Board member, Mid-South Roundtable. Advisory board member, Junior League of Memphis, U of M Department of Marketing & Supply Chain. Super Women in Business 2014, Memphis Business Journal.

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Winner of U of M Intermodal Freight Institute Outstanding Industry Professional award. Winner of the Trailblazer Award presented by Southeast Transportation Workforce Center. MICHAEL L. DUCKER President & CEO, FedEx Freight Corporation. Former president, international business, FedEx Express Asia Paciﬁc in Hong Kong. Executive committee, American Trucking Associations, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations for the Obama administration. Chairman, International Policy Committee. Executive board member and vice chairman, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Board Member, Coalition of Service Industries, Salvation Army, Amway Corporation, International Flavors and Fragrances. WILLIAM B. DUNAVANT III CEO and president, Dunavant Enterprises, Inc. Board member, Memphis University School, New Memphis, National Advisory Board, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia. Advisory Board, Baptist Memorial Hospital. Past chairman, Cotton Council International, New Memphis, St. George’s Independent School. Past president, American Cotton Shippers Association, World Cotton Exporters Association, Memphis Botanic Garden, The Chickasaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America. JIM ETTER Senior vice president, Strategic Operations, Dohmen Life Science Services. B.S., Marketing, Indiana University. Member, Warehousing Education and Research Council, and Council of Supply Chain Management

Professionals. Elder, Harvest Memphis. Dohmen offers the broadest suite of outsourced service capabilities for BioPharma, MedTech and Rare Disease companies, providing clients the freedom to focus on what really matters – creating healthcare innovations that make people’s lives better. Supports Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Leadership Memphis. St. Jude Memphis Marathon volunteer. BUZZ FLY Vice president, Patterson Warehouses, Inc. Winner, 2011 Michael S. Starnes Leadership in Logistics Award. Former president, Greater Memphis Chamber Uniport Association. Member, Warehousing Education Research Council, Memphis Regional Logistics Council. Elder, First Evangelical Church. More than 27 years’ experience in transportation and warehousing business. Operates two million square feet of modern food-grade space and provides complete inventory, fulﬁllment, and order management services for 22 accounts. Additional services include cross-dock operation, intermodal drayage, retail freight consolidation. MARK H. GEORGE Chairman, IMC Companies. Founded Intermodal Cartage Company in 1982 with wife, Melinda, and IMC Companies in 2009, now one of largest intermodal carriers in the country with more than 2,300 employees. Board member, Intermodal Association of North America and and Memphis World Trade Club. 2nd vice chair, American Trucking Association Intermodal Motor Carrier Conference. Vice Chairman and one of 11 founding members of the North American Chassis Pool Cooperative (NACPC). KEN HAZEN President and CEO, CTSI-Global. B.B.A., U of M. Formed transportation consulting company MultiModes before purchasing Continental Trafﬁc Service. Coauthor, The Role of Transportation in the Supply Chain; The Role of Freight Bill Payment and Transportation Information in the Supply Chain Industry. Former chairman, Associated Catholic Charities of West Tennessee. Former president, U of M Alumni Association and Board of Visitors. Fundraising leader for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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An Anchor in Memphis for 70 Years An Anchor in Memphis An Anchor Memphis for 70in Years for 70 Years GLENN LACY Regional service center manager, YRC Freight. Specializes in providing reliable long-haul transportation services for industrial, commercial, and retail customers in North America. Company employs about 750 people in Memphis and prides itself on high safety standards. B.S. degree. With company for 30 years. Supports United Way of the Mid-South, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Married to wife, Kitty, with two children, Kelli and Garrett. CLIFFORD F. LYNCH Principal, C.F. Lynch & Associates. Member, Warehousing Education and Research Council. Certiﬁed member, American Society of Transportation & Logistics. Past president, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. Recipient, CSCMP Distinguished Service Award. Named AST&L Outstanding Transportation/ Logistics Executive in 1997. Author, ﬁve books on logistics and supply chain management. Adjunct professor, Supply Chain Management, U of M. W. NEELY MALLORY III President, Mallory Alexander International Logistics. Has overseen growth from cotton forwarding to ocean transportation, intermodal trucking, warehousing, and distribution. Accepted the President’s E Star Award for Excellence in Exporting and the Governor’s GATE Award for facilitating global trade. Past president, Memphis World Trade Club. Former board member, National Cotton Council, Cotton Council International, Agriculture Transportation Coalition. Board member, Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce. Chairman, Regional Logistics Council of Memphis and the Mid-South. CALVIN W. OZIER President, UWT Logistics. B.S., Industrial Management, University of Tennessee. Specializes in order processing and shipping, transportation services, and repackaging services. Member and former President, Southeastern Warehouse Association. Member, International Warehouse and Logistics Association, Greater Memphis Chamber. Director, Land Bank of Mississippi. For the past 25 years, has been going in the Fall on a medical mission trip to Peru with United Servants Abroad and South America Mission.

RICK RODELL Founder and chairman, Cornerstone Systems. Educated in Transportation, Northwestern University. Founded company in 1997. Member, The Global Leaders. Employees remain partners after selling private stock to them under government approved ESOP. Past chairman, former board member, Intermodal Conference of the Transportation Intermediaries Association. Transportation Clubs International Person of the Year, 2011. Actively involved in mentoring new Directors of local charities. Supports The Forsaken Children (Ethiopia), Coaching For Literacy, Make A Wish, Heritage Foundation, Judicial Watch, Memphis Neighborhood Christian Centers, and more. SCOTT TALLEY Partner and vice president of Worldwide Distribution, PFSweb. B.B.A., University of North Texas; M.B.A., New York Institute of Technology. Services include logistics, end-to-end eCommerce solutions. Responsible for daily operations at distribution complex in Memphis and for strategic resource and technology deployment decisions for all company distribution facilities. Has been in position since 1999. Member, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Association for Operations Management.

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DAVID WEDAMAN President and CEO, Re-Trans, Inc. Graduate, U of M. Board member, Bluestreak Scholarship Fund. Advisory Board, Catholic High School, Education That Works program. Former board member, Lifeblood Foundation, Youth Villages, Catholic Memphis Urban School Trust. 2011 Executive in Residence, U of M Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute. Member, Board of Visitors, U of M. Recipient, 2012 Humanitarian Award, Diversity Memphis. KAREN WHITE Regional vice president, OHL. Named to Inbound Logistics Top 100 3PLs. Selected as Participant in U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Broker SelfAssessment Outreach Pilot. Certiﬁcate of Appreciation, Department of Homeland Security for supporting TSA Truck Security Forum “Linking Government & Industry.” Member, Board of Advisors, Greater Memphis Chamber. Member, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Memphis Cargo Task Force.

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Look around your home and office and city. Now imagine those same spaces without the goods and necessities that make living and working in today’s modern world possible. Right here in Memphis, manufacturing companies are producing everything from paper, chemical, and agricultural products to motorized equipment and cleaning solutions. Even solar panels and air-conditioning systems are made here, along with such diverse products as sports apparel for dance teams, and medical/orthopedic devices that relieve pain and improve our mobility — all of which enhance our quality of life and provide much-needed jobs. Memphis is an ideal location for manufacturing companies, offering economic incentives and a centralized location from which to ship their products. Advancements in the industry are made every day, and these POWER PLAYERS are leading the way to a more efficient, safer future. KATHY BUCKMAN GIBSON President and COO, Buckman. Bachelor’s degree, Duke University; M.B.A. & J.D., Emory University. Chairman, Pre-K Initiative of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s Circle. Board member, National Civil Rights Museum Board and Girls Inc. Past member, TAPPI Foundation Board of Trustees. Past vice chairman, Board of Executives, Sloan Center for Paper Business Industry Studies. Campaign chair, United Way of the Mid-South, 2008. Past board member, Memphis Bioworks Foundation.

KEVIN OHNECK Vice president and plant manager, Hino Motors Manufacturing. Facility located in Marion, Arkansas. Has A.S. degree, Applied Science. Plant is one of Hino’s most productive and has been in operation since 2006. Hino Motors supplies rear driving axles and rear suspension components for light trucks and SUVs. Notable clients include Toyota and Hino trucks. Past president and board member of ACT!, a nonproﬁt for persons with disabilities.

KUNIO KAMIMURA President, Sharp Manufacturing Company of America (SMCA). Over 35 years of experience at Sharp. Formerly division general manager, worked in the Solar Business Planning Department, was solar engineer for satellite use. Joined Sharp in 1983 after graduating from Tokai University graduate school with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. Memphis operations include a Health and Environmental Division and a Business Solutions Group.

ALLEN W. PIERCE SR. General Manager, Manufacturing, New and ReCon Parts, Cummins Inc. B.S., Chemistry and Mathematics, North Carolina A&T State University; M.B.A., Duke University. Previous positions in company include XPI Fuel Systems JV, PowerCare Manufacturing, and Diesel Recon divisions. Leadership Memphis, class of 2000. Member, Finance Committee chair, LeMoyne-Owen College. ODI Certiﬁed Facilitator. Founding member, Executive Board, Remanufacturing Industries Council.

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JACK SAMMONS President, Ampro Industries. Company manufactures personal care products. President, River City Laboratories. Former chairman and current board member, Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority. B.B.A., U of M. National president, Ethnic Product Manufacturers Association. Former chairman, Memphis City Council, and served four terms as council member. Chief administrative ofﬁcer, City of Memphis, for Mayor ProTem Myron Lowery and Mayor A C Wharton. Former chairman, Tennessee Athletic Commission. General chairman, FedEx St. Jude Classic. President, Youth Programs Inc. Former board member, Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. KARL SCHLEDWITZ Co-founder, Chairman, CEO of Monogram Foods, a leading manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of ready-to-eat further processed meats including jerky, corn dogs, precooked bacon, appetizers, and hot dogs. Monogram operates eight plants in seven states with over 2,700 employees. Longtime member of the Memphis Zoo Board, the Orpheum Theatre Board, and trustee emeritus of the UT Board of Directors. LEIGH SHOCKEY CEO, Drexel Chemical Co., manufacturer and formulator of chemical products for agriculture. Business degree, UT-Martin. Chair, West Tennessee District export Council, Greater Memphis Chamber. Board member, Liberty Bowl, Tennessee Board of Regents, Memphis in May, Crop Life America, University of Memphis Business School Board of Advisors.

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Ours is an increasingly image-conscious world. As technology has introduced new forms of media for mass consumption, a key principle in business has consistently been underscored: It’s not enough to be good at what you do. You’re sometimes only as good as the market thinks you look. With the quickly changing landscape of new media, and with social networks reaching into all aspects of life, being able to rely on marketing and public relations professionals is more important now than ever — it can be a matter of business life and death. Whether your company needs an image makeover, wants to launch a new brand, product, or service, or simply seeks better exposure in the marketplace, hiring a marketing and PR agency can go a long way toward ensuring that your message is in tune with your target audience and pitch-perfect. BILL CARKEET CEO, principal, and co-owner, Oden. B.S., Education, U of M. Company is a 43-year-old B2B marketing, communications, and branding firm. Leads shaping of firm’s future, opportunity assessment, services. Chair of management team. Former vice president of marketing, First Tennessee Bank. Board member, ArtsMemphis; chair, Marketing Council. Former board member and president, Chicago-based Association of Professional Design Firms. DOUG CARPENTER Principal, DCA, creative communications consulting firm. Has provided business-based communications solutions for public and private sector clients for over 30 years. Instrumental in successful efforts to recruit the Grizzlies NBA franchise to Memphis, revitalize the Sears Crosstown building, reimagine the historic Tennessee Brewery, launch Big River Crossing, amplify Folk’s Folly’s legacy, bring Explore Bike Share to Memphis, among many other campaigns and initiatives. JERRY EHRLICH President/founder, The Brand Squad. Firm focused on launching new brands, products, special initiatives, revitalizing underperforming brands. Client industries include hospitality, medical, manufacturing, nonprofit, agriculture, technology, automotive aftermarket, government, financial services. Board member, UT College of Communications, Facing History & Ourselves. Former Memphis Advertising Federation President of the Year.

COURTNEY ELLETT Founder and owner, Obsidian Public Relations. Firm named Small Business of the Year in 2013, Memphis Business Journal. PR Director of the Year, Memphis Advertising Federation. “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal; “50 Women Who Make A Difference,” Memphis Woman. Recipient, six Silver VOX Awards, Memphis Chapter, Public Relations Society of America; Addy Awards’ Best of Show, Memphis Advertising Federation. Finalist, 2013 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business. Executive of the Year in 2014, Memphis Business Journal. CHARLES T. GAUSHELL Principal/founder - Paradigm Marketing & Creative. Differentiating businesses and organizations since 1992, Paradigm is a full-service branding, marketing, creative, advertising ﬁrm. Clients include Buff City Soap, Pyros Fire Fresh Pizza, Semmes Murphey, MCUTS, Flat Hat Brewing, wide variety of startups, dozens of real estate developers around the country. Recipient, numerous Addy, Telly, Davey Awards. Finalist, Best Places to Work and Small Business Awards, Memphis Business Journal. Leadership Memphis alumnus; judge for national Davey and Telly Awards; cancer survivor.

TRACE HALLOWELL Founder and managing partner, Tactical Magic. Received numerous national, international honors for advertising, branding, creativity. With more than 30 years in the business, his work is published in numerous books, magazines, college textbooks that highlight the best in creative marketing. Clients include Gould’s, Leadership Memphis, Sterling National Bank, New York, Trousseau, Uniform Masters. MARK HENRY President and co-founder, Signature Advertising. With agency for more than 20 years. Signature has won numerous Addys, MarComs, Tellys, The Wall Street Journal “Best Of” awards. Provides pro bono services to many community nonprofits. Alongside U of M Professor Lurene Kelley, created mentorship program for school’s Department of Journalism. 2013 recipient, U of M Charles E. Thornton Outstanding Journalism Alumni Award. CHRISTI KELLEY President and CEO, Kelley & Associates Advertising, Inc. Represents clients in the medical, agricultural, industrial, real estate, financial, retail, B2B industries. Recipient, numerous awards including Addy, Telly, SIAA, MIRM, NAMA, PIAS Graphic, MarCom, International Communicator Awards. Board member, First South Financial. Involved with Catholic Charities of West Tennessee, Porter-Leath, other nonprofits. JERRY KLEIN Owner and president, Kossman/Klein & Company, founded in 1981. Longstanding clients include John J. Campbell Co., Bluff City Jaguar Land Rover, Air Repair, Inc. Founder and first president, Germantown Rotary. Recipient, Dean Campbell Award, Germantown Rotary; U of M Herbert Lee Williams Outstanding Career Accomplishment Award. Past chairman, Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau. Chairman, Germantown Economic Development Commission. STINSON LILES Co-founder and co-principal, Red Deluxe Brand Development. With partner Martin Wilford, guides firm’s regional and national clients, which have included the national American Red Cross, HGTV. Works with some of the city’s top brands, including Baptist Memorial Health Care, Memphis Grizzlies, Hyde Family Foundations, Duncan-Williams. 2012 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business magazine, and awarded the Memphis

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Advertising Silver Medal award for advertising achievement, 2017. JOHN R. MALMO Chairman emeritus, Archer Malmo Inc., and principal, John Malmo Marketing Consulting. Graduate, Boston University. Entrepreneurial Fellow, U of M. Founded John Malmo Advertising in 1967. Former president, Memphis Advertising Federation. Former director, American Association of Advertising Agencies. Recipient, American Advertising Federation Silver Medal Award. Trustee chairman, Moore Tech. Regular commentator on WKNO-FM. Author, When There’s No Tiger on the Mountain, Monkey Is King. DEIDRE MALONE Founder, president, and CEO, The Carter Malone Group, LLC, and CEO of Malone Sullivan Public Strategies. B.S., Jackson State University. Founding member, Tennessee Public Relations Alliance. Member, PRSA, National Association of Women Business Owners, EDGE Board, Baptist Health Sciences College Board. President, Tennessee Women’s Political Caucus. Former Shelby County Commissioner. Former chairman, Shelby County Commission. Former Democratic nominee, Shelby County Mayor. VALERIE MORRIS President and CEO, Morris Marketing Group, a strategic marketing, public relations, communications ﬁrm. Provides senior strategy and implementation of holistic marketing and PR campaigns serving a variety of clients across many different business sectors locally, regionally nationally. Recipient, numerous VOX, Hermes, MarCom awards. One of “Top 10 Companies to Watch in 2018.” Recognized in “Super Women in Business,” “Women with Drive,“ “Top 40 under 40.” Recipient, “Jeff Piselli Media Support Award.” Board member, Leadership Memphis, AutoZone Liberty Bowl, Memphis & Shelby County Sports Authority, American Heart Association Go Red ELT. President, Greater Memphis Chamber Ambassadors. Treasurer, Public Relations Society of America, Memphis Chapter. HOWARD ROBERTSON JR. Principal and CEO, TRUST Marketing & Communications, Inc. Oldest African American-owned marketing ﬁrm in this part of the country. Client roster includes City of Memphis, MethodistLeBonheur Healthcare, Durham School Services, Shelby County Government, MemphisShelby County Airport Authority, others. Board member, Hattiloo Theatre, Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. Past chairman, Soulsville Foundation, Memphis in May.

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CYNTHIA H. SAATKAMP President and co-founder, Hemline, building tailored brand strategies for clients including Hilton Worldwide, Church Health, Ballet Memphis, Onyx Medical, AutoZone, LEO Events. “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Recipient, Marketing Professional of the Year, Communications Firm of the Year, American Advertising Federation. President, American Advertising Federation; Senior Warden and board member, Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School. TIM SELLERS Co-founder and partner, inferno, providing strategic counsel and marketing communications solutions to clients in bioscience, healthcare, logistics, financial services. Recognized by AAF Memphis as “Advertising CEO of the Year,” “Ad Man of the Year.” Former board member, CASA of Memphis and Shelby County, Hope Youth Ministries, AAF Memphis. Currently serving on the Board of Visitors, UT College of Communication and Information. SHEPERD SIMMONS Founder and president, Counterpart Communication Design. B.A., Southern Mississippi. Specializes in message strategy. Offices in Memphis, Dallas, Philadelphia, Detroit, Winston-Salem, Fort Myers. Clients include AARP, P&G, Progressive Insurance, FedEx, Hilton. Has earned 500+ awards, national and international, including The One Show, Graphis, New York Festivals. Named “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Home & School Association officer. Lector. Children’s Liturgy teacher. BRIAN SULLIVAN Principal and CEO, Sullivan Branding. Helped create award-winning creative campaigns, internal communications, company culture, training programs, developed brands for clients locally, regionally, nationally, including hospitality, healthcare, entertainment, professional sports, tourism, education. Board member and area vice president, USTA Tennessee. Vice chairman, Marketing Committee, USTA Southern. Past trustee, New Memphis. Board member, Beale Street Caravan, The Orpheum Theatre Group, and UT-Knoxville Alumni Association. ELIZABETH TATE Chairperson and CEO, Signet, Inc. Clients include International Paper, FedEx, Chick-fil-A, ServiceMaster, Thomas & Betts, First Tennessee. Founding member, PeerNet industry consortium. Member, Mid-South Minority Business Council, Promotional Products

Association International, AAF Memphis. Former vicechair, Board of Trustees, St. Agnes Academy. Finalist, Robert Church Awards for Minority Business of the Year, listed in ASI Counselor’s Best Places to Work for five straight years. WBENC certified company. LORI TURNER-WILSON CEO and founder, RedRover Sales & Marketing. Helps clients improve the productivity of their sales force and return on their marketing investment. Syndicated “Guerrilla Sales & Marketing” columnist in publications including Memphis Daily News, Nashville Ledger. President, AMA Memphis. Company featured by Greater Memphis Chamber as one of “Top 10 Companies to Watch in 2014.” Small Business Awards, Executive of the Year finalist, “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. CEIL T. WALKER CEO and president, Walker + Associates. Recipient, numerous Telly, Addy, Vox, MarCom awards for clients including Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, Higher Education Commission, McDonald’s, Thomas & Betts, Lucite International. Outstanding Alumnus, University of South Florida School of Mass Communications. Former governor, River City States Council, American Association of Advertising. Recipient, Memphis Symphony’s Hebe Award. BECKY JONES WEST President and founder, WestRogers Strategic Communications, LLC. Services include media planning and buying, political and public affairs, crisis communications, brand development. Specialties include political campaigns, healthcare, economic development, energy, real estate, entertainment, sports promotions. Planned and bought media for Ted Cruz for President. Trustees chair and former board chair, Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Advisory Board, Ole Miss Meek School of Journalism and New Media. Board member, Ole Miss Women’s Council. RUSS WILLIAMS CEO, Archer Malmo, an integrated agency founded in 1952 with 190 employees. B.S., Christian Brothers University. M.B.A., University of Virginia School of Business A 25-year veteran of strategic action and an avid supporter of the Downtown Memphis creative community. Recipient, Memphis American Advertising Federation “2016 Silver Medal Award,” Inside Memphis Business 2016 CEO of the Year. “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal.

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Doctors and nurses aren’t the only players keeping our hospitals and research institutions running, and the people in the business of saving lives aren’t always the ones wearing stethoscopes or peering into microscopes. The healthcare industry is ever-changing, from insurance regulations and day-to-day expenses, to ground-breaking discoveries and the acquisition of grants. These are the POWER PLAYERS behind the players. These individuals have their fingers on the pulse of change and growth in the healthcare industry and its need for expansion and development. For them, finding ways to provide the best clinical outcome in a challenging, evolving environment is just another day at the office. PAM ALEXANDER President and CEO, MidSouth Healthcare Management. Previous experience includes various positions with MPL; COO, Symbion Physician Services. Opened Midsouth Healthcare Management in 2010, providing practice management services to include oversight management, accounts payables and monthly ﬁnancials, human resources, billing and collection services to all specialties. Certiﬁed Medical Coder.

DEBBIE EDDLESTONE CEO, Stern Cardiovascular Foundation. B.A., Education, LSU. Practice offers comprehensive approach to wellness and preventive medicine with 11 MidSouth locations. Partnered with Baptist Memorial Health Care in 2011; 2012 merged with Memphis Heart Clinic. Board member, American Heart Association, MGMA, National Association for Professional Women, Medaxiom. Named to Memphis Business Journal’s Superwomen in Business. 2017 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business.

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JOHN GROSS Practice administrator, Shea Clinic. B.A., LSU. Comprehensive ENT medical practice and surgery center specializing in treatment of chronic hearing and balance disorders. Member, Leadership Council, Association of Otolaryngology Administrators. Elected National Program chairperson, AOA Annual Institute in San Francisco. Starkey Foundation 2013 Director’s Award for providing outstanding help to the hearing impaired within the Memphis community. Starkey Foundation 2014 Millennium Award in recognition of those whose lives embody their mission of “So the World May Hear.”

Administrator and general counsel, Mid-South Pulmonary Specialists, P.C. B.B.A., International Business and Economics; M.B.A. Healthcare Economics, J.D., U of M. Clinic one of largest pulmonary and critical care practices in the Southeast, specializing in the treatment of patients with respiratory illnesses as well as sleep medicine and intensivist services. With practice for 18 years. Also consults for primary care, other specialties. DREW BOTSCHNER CEO, University Clinical Health. M.B.A., Xavier University; law and bachelor’s degrees, Wake Forest University. Private practice arm of the UT College of Medicine. Offers clinical practices in dermatology, family medicine, nephrology, ophthalmology (Hamilton Eye Institute), plastic surgery, neonatology, dermapathology, neurology, minimally invasive surgery, pathology, hematology. Leadership and legal roles in hospital systems throughout Ohio prior to joining University Clinical Health in 2014.

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DAVID HARANO CEO, Gastro One. B.B.A., Finance, Emory University. M.B.A. and M.H.A., Georgia State. Former chair, Medical Group Management Association’s Gastroenterology Administration Assembly. Board member, Preventing Colorectal Cancer. Chairman, Colorectal Cancer Committee, Tennessee Cancer Coalition. Member, Tennessee Group Practice Coalition, Memphis Medical Group Management Association, Baptist Healthcare T H E P O W E R P L AY E R S 2 0 1 8 | IN S ID E M EM P HI S B U S IN E S S .C O M |

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GEORGE HERNANDEZ CEO, Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics; executive director, The Campbell Foundation. 2012 Large Business of the Year, Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce. Board member, Germantown Area Chamber of Commerce. Member, City of Germantown Planning Commission. Germantown Police Department Reserve. Committee chairman, American Academy of Orthopaedic Executives. Member, Board of Examiners, Healthcare Financial Management Association.

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JOHN A. LEWIS CEO, Semmes-Murphey Clinic, which offers neurosurgery, neurology, physiatry, pain management; serves all major medical centers in the Memphis area. M.B.A., Christian Brothers University. CPA, CITP, Certiﬁed IT Project Manager; fellow, American College of Medical Practice Executives. Member, Tennessee Association of CPAs, American Institute of CPAs, Medical Group Management Association. Memphis Heart Ball chair. Senior Warden, Church of the Holy Communion. Board member, American Heart Association, Shelby County Books from Birth (Imagination Library), Neurosurgery Executives Resource and Value Education Society. ERICH MOUNCE CEO, The West Clinic and West Cancer Center. B.S., Business, University of Southern California. B.S. and M.H.A. in Health Administration, California State University, Northridge. Previously, CEO of Lakeside Systems/Lakeside Comprehensive Healthcare in Glendale, California. Developed DC Healthcare Alliance, a public-private partnership to provide care for the underserved Washington, D.C., population. Helped to formulate a three-way collaboration between Methodist, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and The West Clinic to create the West Cancer Center, an innovative effort to combine expertise and provide new research and access to Phase I through Phase III clinical trials. MARK SWANSON CEO, Baptist Medical Group/Baptist Memorial Healthcare. B.S., Old Dominion University; M.D., Eastern Virginia Medical School. M.S., Healthcare Management, Harvard School of Public Health. Pediatric residency training at U.S. Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, VA. Formerly served Baptist as chief quality ofﬁcer after joining in 2014.

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Medical: Hospital Administration

Doctors and nurses aren’t the only ones keeping our hospitals running, and the people in the business of saving lives aren’t always the ones wearing stethoscopes. The following POWER PLAYERS are responsible for making healthcare delivery run smoothly, so that doctors can do their jobs and you can get the care you need. Administrators make sure hospitals operate efficiently and provide appropriate medical care to patients. While doctors strive to keep the blood flowing and the heart beating, the hospital administrator is doing his or her job keeping the hospital alive and healthy. These individuals also have their fingers on the pulse of change and growth in the healthcare industry and the need to expand, raise money for such expansions, and purchase the most state-of-the-art equipment for every area of the hospital. MERI ARMOUR President, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. M.S.N. and M.B.A., Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and CWRU Weatherhead School of Management. Led Le Bonheur to become one of the nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals as named by U.S. News & World Report. Board member, Urban Child Institute, Tennessee Women’s Association, UTHSC Research and Technology Development, Hospital Wing, Children’s Hospital Alliance of Tennessee, Memphis Research Consortium. REGINALD COOPWOOD President and CEO, Regional One Health. Board-certified surgeon. Immediate past chair, Tennessee Hospital Association Board, American Hospital Association’s Governing Council on Metropolitan Hospitals. Chair, MidSouth e-Health Alliance, Memphis Division, March of Dimes. Member, March of Dimes Tennessee State Chapter, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Board. Recipient, 2010 Individual Leader in Health, Community Health Charities of Tennessee; 2013 Tennessee Hospital Association Diversity Champion; 2014 CEO of the Year Award, Inside Memphis Business. JAMES R. DOWNING President and CEO, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Research focused on improving treatment of childhood cancers. Instrumental in launching Pediatric Cancer Genome Project— made TIME’s 2012 list of top 10 medical breakthroughs. 2013 finalist on TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world list. Elected to Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Architect of six-year plan to expand St. Jude clinical care and research programs in Memphis and around the world.

AUDREY GREGORY CEO, St. Francis Healthcare. Responsible for overseeing all areas of operations at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis, Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett. Master’s and Bachelor’s, nursing; Master’s, Healthcare Administration, Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia; Ph.D., Global Leadership, concentrating in corporate and organizational management, Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.

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JASON LITTLE President and CEO, Baptist Memorial Health Care. Former executive vice president and COO, Baptist; CEO Baptist Memphis, Baptist Golden Triangle, Baptist Collierville. Recipient, Early Career Healthcare Executive Award, American College of Healthcare Executives. Board member, Greater Memphis Chamber, Healthcare Institute, Memphis Tomorrow, Tennessee Hospital Association, New Memphis. Industry Council, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

MICHAEL O. UGWUEKE President and CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. B.S., Shaw University; M.P.H., Emory; D.H.A., South Carolina. 2012 Modern Healthcare “Top 25 Minority Executives.” Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives. Member, National Association of Health Services Executives. Former board member, Memphis Academy of Health Sciences, Boys & Girls Club of Greater Memphis, American Heart Association, Greater Southeast Area. T H E P O W E R P L AY E R S 2 0 1 8 | IN S ID E M EM P HI S B U S IN E S S .C O M |

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Philanthropy

Give and take. It’s a phrase bandied about most often when a compromise is involved. But for an altruistic group, the “take” part simply doesn’t apply. These POWER PLAYERS don’t seek the spotlight, and their work quietly improves the fabric of the city in countless areas — from hunger and homelessness to racial reconciliation, education, the arts, healthcare, and the environment. Behind the scenes, they feed the poor, heal the sick, and provide more than just the basic necessities of life. They do so leading foundations and organizations that collectively give hundreds of millions of dollars to the region. But most importantly, they give those they serve a sense of hope and dignity. The term “give till it hurts” is not in their vernacular, as they happily give and ease the hurt of those they serve. And the city is better because of them. CHARLES BURKETT Chairman, First Tennessee Foundation. B.B.A., U of M; graduate, University of Virginia School of Banking, UT Executive Development Program. Retired in 2011 as president of banking, First Tennessee. Organization focuses community investment on arts, culture, economic development, education, environmental, health, human services. Since its inception in 1993, the First Tennessee Foundation has donated more than $70 million to strengthen communities.

BOB FOCKLER President, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. A.B., Princeton University. Works with individuals, families, and their professional advisors to establish and manage charitable giving plans tailored to their personal needs. Leads largest grant maker in the area, allocating approximately $114 million in 2015. Board member, Southeastern Council of Foundations, Memphis University School, MIFA.

MAURICIO CALVO Executive director, Latino Memphis. B.S., Christian Brothers University. Has been working to promote growth among the Latino middle class in Memphis since 2008. Latino Memphis provides aid and support to the Memphis Latino community, such as assistance in health care, college advice, immigration services. Also puts on over 30 events during the year, including an annual festival and a 5K. Top 10 Young Professionals, The Memphis Chamber in 2011. “12 Who Made a Difference in 2012,” The Commercial Appeal. “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal, 2014. Board member, Memphis Chamber of Commerce. NCLR, Southeast Afﬁliate Representative.

BARBARA ROSSER HYDE President, J.R. Hyde III Family Foundation, J.R. Hyde Sr. Foundation. Dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Memphis area. Involved in public education reform, including KIPP Academy, Teach for America, New Leaders. Founding member and former board chair, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. Former trustee, New Memphis, Yale University Art Gallery. Named one of “Top 100 Most Powerful People in Tennessee,” BusinessTN, 2004.

MIKE CARPENTER Executive director, Plough Foundation since 2013. B.A., International Relations/ Political Science, U of M. Foundation makes grants within Shelby County to meet community needs. Current initiatives address the aging population. Grantees include the Family Safety Center, Memphis Crime Commission, Memphis Zoo. “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal, 2009. Appointee to the Governor’s Task Force of Aging, 2013. Former Shelby County Commissioner.

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PAULA JACOBSON President, Methodist Healthcare Foundation. B.A., American Studies, Tulane University; M.A., Guidance and Counseling, SMU. Leads fundraising for clinical priorities and community health initiatives of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, including hospice, community health disparities initiatives, and the comprehensive sickle cell center. Former Board of Trustees president, Temple Israel. Former board member and executive director, Jewish Foundation of Memphis. Board member, MIFA.

LAURA K. LINDER President and CEO, Jewish Community Partners. Executive director, Memphis Jewish Federation. B.A., Journalism and Psychology, Indiana University. Certiﬁed Fundraising Executive. Named to “Top 40 under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Emerging Young Leaders Award, National Council of Jewish Women, Milwaukee. Past president, Memphis Planned Giving Council. Past secretary, Memphis Grantmaker’s Forum. Past board member, Playhouse on the Square/Circuit Playhouse. JENNY NEVELS Executive director, Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation. B.A., Rhodes College. Raised $15 million in 2016 and 2017. Causes include Baptist Heart Institute, Kemmons Wilson Family Center for Good Grief, Baptist Reynolds Hospice House, scholarships for students at the Baptist College of Health Sciences, Baptist Operation Outreach, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Spence and Becky Wilson Baptist Children’s Hospital. Named one of “50 Women Who Make a Difference,” 2005. Member, Association of Health Care Philanthropy, Association of Fundraising Professionals. MAUREEN O’CONNOR Vice president of institutional advancement, Le Bonheur. Leads efforts of Le Bonheur Foundation, Marketing, Public Policy, Trauma Administration, and Injury Prevention teams. Previously worked for The New York Times Company in advertising, marketing, and sales in New York, and served as vice president of Sales and Executive Vice President and station manager for WREG-TV News Channel 3 in Memphis. Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Iona College; M.B.A., Christian Brothers University. DEANO ORR Executive director, International Paper Foundation. B.B.A., University of Mississippi. Responsible for oversight, development, and strategic alignment of all IP giving programs, with more than $11 million in donations and charitable contributions annually around the globe with a primary focus on environmental education and literacy. Ofﬁcer, Ole Miss Alumni Association Board of Directors. Tri-State Defender 2012 Men of Excellence Inductee. Inaugural Recipient, International Paper Diversity and Inclusion Impact Award.

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TAMMIE RITCHEY Executive director, Regional One Health Foundation. Serves as relationship manager connecting philanthropists to programs, causes, and clinical leaders who can fulﬁll their desire to change healthcare and impact lives. Native Memphian, Rhodes College graduate. Certified Fundraising Executive. Member, Memphis Downtown Rotary Club, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, Health Management Academy. GAYLE S. ROSE Chairman, Rose Family Foundation. CEO and founder, EVS Corporation. Bachelor’s, University of Northern Iowa; Master’s, Management and Public Administration, Harvard. Chair and active supporter, Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Founder, Team Max. Co-founded the Chopra Companies with Deepak Chopra. Named one of Tennessee’s “100 Most Powerful People,” BusinessTN. 2012 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business. Recipient, Changing Face of Philanthropy Award, International Women’s Funding Network, Woman of Achievement Award. ELIZABETH ROUSE President and CEO, ArtsMemphis. Oversees the organization’s support of the local arts community through programs and funding. Joined ArtsMemphis in 2006 and served as chief development ofﬁcer and COO before assuming the top spot. Leadership Memphis alum. Board member, Greater Memphis Chamber. JAN YOUNG Executive director, Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc. Doctorate in Nursing. Initiatives include Ethical Fitness and Bridges Out of Poverty. Recipient, Outstanding Alumni Awards from UT and U of M; Outstanding Air National Guard Nurse. Member, Institute of Global Ethics, Southeastern Council of Foundations, Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau, Military Order of World Wars. Organization awarded grants of more than $10 million in 2013.

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No city can thrive without the support of a vibrant public service community. From feeding the hungry to promoting diversity to establishing and preserving green spaces in the city, public service keeps us moving toward a better tomorrow. The following POWER PLAYERS represent active organizations and waves of folks volunteering their time, money, and expertise for the good of the community. They work hard every day to aid those in need by providing essential services, solve and prevent serious problems, help ensure our safety, and advance the common good. Their focus extends to children, youth, seniors, and the disabled, to improved race relations, health and fitness, spiritual and emotional needs, and the arts. Their efforts drive the inspiration in all of us to make a difference, and thanks to these POWER PLAYERS we have a better Memphis to show for it. JEN ANDREWS CEO, Shelby Farms Park Conservancy. Oversees services, amenities, and operations at Shelby Farms Park and Shelby Farms Greenline, including implementation of Master Plan. Former director of development and communications with the Conservancy. B.A. English Literature, Rhodes College. Memphis Flyer, “Top 20 under 30”. Former board member, Playhouse on the Square. Member, New Memphis, Leadership Memphis, City Parks Alliance, National Recreation and Parks Association, Mid-South Regional Greenprint Communications Committee.

KEVIN DEAN Chief executive ofﬁcer, Momentum Nonproﬁt Partners. B.A., U of M; M.S., Christian Brothers University. Recipient, 2013 Ruth J. Colvin and Frank C. Laubach Award for Excellence in Community-Based Adult Literacy from ProLiteracy in Washington, D.C.; 2015 Innovation Awards, Inside Memphis Business. In 2006, won national award for nationally replicated service-learning based curriculum that engaged young people in disaster relief and cleanup. Co-authored literacy-themed service-learning curriculum for high school students that has been used across the United States.

KENNETH R. BENNETT Founder, Street Ministries. B.S. and M.S., U of M. Executive Director, SOUL (Sending Out Urban Leaders), responsible for hiring staff to train, develop, and fund urban leaders across the city. Recipient, Thomas W. Briggs Community Service Award, East Memphis Rotary Citizen of the Year, Memphis Theological Seminary’s Humanitarian Award, Lyndhurst Prize, 2015 Memphis Fatherhood Hall of Fame award.

RICHARD L. FISHER CEO, Chickasaw Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Graduate, University of Kansas. Serving in 30th year of professional Scouting. Oversees a $2.6 million annual budget, a staff of more than 26, plus 125 seasonal workers at two camps, and about 4,000 Scout leaders. The Chickasaw Council is serving 6,500 youth with 2,200 volunteers. Recently completed $9 million capital campaign to be invested in Camps Currier and Kia Kima. Has written a gang guide for volunteers in troubled communities, created a basketball tournament to recruit older boys to Scouting, and developed a program for Scouting activities at correctional facilities where parents of Scouts are kept.

RUBY BRIGHT Executive director and chief administrative ofﬁcer, Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Named Foundation of the Year, MPACT Memphis. Former chair, Women’s Funding Network. Recipient, Henry Logan Starks Award, Memphis Theological Seminary; Changing Face of Philanthropy Award, Women’s Funding Network; Kate Gooch Award, Leadership Memphis; J.A. McDaniel Award, Urban League; Ruby R. Wharton Award for Community Service; Women of Achievement Vision Award; Evie Horton Award. 2014 Memphis Business Journal “Super Women in Business.”

J. DANIEL GARRICK Executive director, Lifeblood. From 2000 to 2015, Garrick served as Lifeblood’s CFO and COO. B.S., Accounting, Mississippi State University. Graduate, University of Mississippi School of Banking. Post-graduate work, University of Wisconsin, Harvard School of Business. Leadership Memphis’ class of 2008. Served on numerous transfusion industry Boards. Lifeblood is a

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non-profit business unit of Blood Systems, Inc. one of the largest providers of blood products in the country. Lifeblood provides more than 100,000 blood components to area hospitals annually. Mr. Garrick is married and has four daughters. H. DALE HALL CEO, Ducks Unlimited Inc. Organization celebrating 81st anniversary as world’s leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation. B.S., Biology and Chemistry, Cumberland College; master’s, fisheries science, LSU. 30 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the last four as director, appointed by President George W. Bush. Formerly owned a natural resources consulting company. In current position since 2010. Author of numerous published papers on wetlands, fisheries ecology, and other topics. CYNTHIA HAM President/CEO, BRIDGES. B.A., Journalism, U of M. Former principal and chief PR officer, Archer Malmo. Executive Director, Memphis in May, from 1987 to 1996, where she launched Beale Street Music Festival. Opened Mud Island in 1982. First marketing director, Beale Street Historic District. President, Beale Street Caravan. Outstanding Journalism Alumni Award, 1999. Lifetime Achievement Award with husband Jeff Sanford, Downtown Memphis Commission, 2011. Recipient, AdFed Silver Medal Award, 2013. SALLY JONES HEINZ President & CEO, MIFA. B.A., Rhodes College, M.A. University of Texas at Austin. Joined in 2007 as vice president of development. Founded in 1968, MIFA is celebrating 50 years of supporting the independence of vulnerable seniors and families in crisis. Recipient, Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, Rhodes College, 2014; Outstanding Executive Leader Award, Memphis Chapter, Association of Fund Raising Professionals, 2014. ONIE JOHNS Founder, Caritas Village. Organization, located in Binghampton, seeks to strike accord between races and classes and is a community asset for neighborhood children. Includes a restaurant, cultural and arts activities, a theater, free health clinic, after-school programs, tutoring, and ESL programs. Recipient, 2011 Legends Award, Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Has joined forces with other organizations, including Binghampton Development Corp., Service Over Self, BRIDGES, Jacob’s Ladder.

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MELANIE ANN KELLER President and CEO, Meritan, Inc. B.S., Nursing, and M.H.A., U of M. Nonprofit health and social services agency that provides home healthcare, homemaker service, private duty nursing, and other nursing services to individuals with disabilities, senior employment services, and foster care services in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Georgia. Agency part of Shelby County Coordinated Response to Elder Abuse. Recipient, Outstanding Home Care Leader Award, Tennessee Association for Home Care; 2015 Memphis Business Journal Super Women in Business Award; 2015 Health Care Hero winner for Administrative Excellence. PATRICK W. LAWLER CEO, Youth Villages. B.A. and M.A., U of M. Youth Villages helps 25,000 children and families nationwide annually with more than 3,000 staff in 74 locations. Recognized in 2006 as one of “America’s Best Leaders,” U.S. News and World Report. Board member, Bank of Bartlett, Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett. Master Entrepreneur, Society of Entrepreneurs. Has led Youth Villages since the organization was founded in 1986. SHANTELLE LEATHERWOOD CEO, Christ Community Health Services. B.S., Health Care Administration and Planning, Tennessee State University. Master’s, Health Administration, University of Missouri-Columbia. Member, Mid-South American Cancer Society, City of Memphis IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Steering Committee, Infant Mortality Rate Initiative Core Leadership Team. TONY MARTINI President and CEO, Memphis Goodwill Industries. The nonprofit provides employment and life skills assistance to persons with significant work barriers. Provides contract services through government partnerships. President, Tennessee Association of Goodwills. Past President, Southeastern Association of Goodwills. Graduate, New Memphis Academy. Finalist, 2014 Executive of the Year, Memphis Business Journal. 2015 Outstanding Italian, Memphis Italian Fest. Founder, the Excel Center for Adult Learners. ESTELLA H. MAYHUE-GREER President and CEO, Mid-South Food Bank. B.A., M.A., U of M. Has been with Food Bank since 1996. Started Food Bank’s Kids Cafes, Food for Kids BackPack Programs, Mobile Pantry. Organization serves needy people in 31 counties through a network of 274 charitable

feeding programs. Member, UT College of Medicine Advisory Board, Trezevant Manor Board of Directors. Served on the Feeding America National Council. Named one of “50 Women Who Make A Difference,” Memphis Woman. Graduate, Leadership Memphis. 2015 Memphis City Council Humanitarian Award. NANCY NUNN MCGEE CEO, Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence. B.A. and M.P.A., University of Arkansas. Organization a resource to Mid-South nonprofits, helping to build capacity to more effectively meet the needs of their clients and improve quality of life in the region. Nonprofit provides training and consulting services in the areas of financial sustainability, human capital and impact, and research of and advocacy for the regional sector. Named one of “50 Women Who Make a Difference,” Memphis Woman. Has been leading the organization for more than 20 years. CHARLES MCVEAN Chairman and founder, Peer Power Foundation. Graduated with honors, Vanderbilt University. Nonprofit tutors more than 1,000 kids in schools in Tennessee and Mississippi, combining performance-based compensation with powerful effects of peer groups. Chairman and CEO, McVean Trading & Investments. Founder and chairman, Aerobic Cruiser Hybrid Cycles. Recipient, 2013 Innovation Award, Inside Memphis Business, for the Big River Crossing. G. SCOTT MORRIS Founder and CEO, Church Health. B.A., University of Virginia; M.Div., Yale; M.D., Emory University. Board member, Healthy Shelby, Urban Youth Initiative, Orpheum Theatre and Halloran Centre for Performing Arts and Education. Member, Memphis Bioworks Foundation Advisory Board. Chairman, Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society Ethics Committee. Honorary Doctor of Letters, 2015, U of M. Society of Entrepreneurs Master Entrepreneur award, 2011. Memphis Theological Seminary’s President’s Humanitarian Award, 2010. The Kindness Revolution’s Spirit of Kindness Award, 2010. KENNETH ROBINSON President/CEO, United Way of the MidSouth since February 2015. Past Tennessee Commissioner of Health (2003-2007). Has served as Health Program and Policy Consultant, County Health officer to the mayor of Shelby County since 2008. Long-time civic leader and past board member of local United Way, playing key role in fund distribution and community impact efforts. Pastor, St. Andrew AME Church. B.A., cum laude, Harvard; M.D., Harvard Medical School; Master of Divinity, Vanderbilt.

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RICHARD C. SHADYAC JR. CEO, ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is supported by more than 9 million donors and 1 million volunteers. More than 31,000 fundraising activities held annually, including the FedEx St. Jude Classic and St. Jude Memphis Marathon. Leadership has propelled ALSAC to become the top healthcare charity in the United States and St. Jude continues to receive top scores in donor loyalty and engagement as the most trusted nonproﬁt brand. Board member, Memphis Tomorrow, Greater Memphis Chamber. 2016 CEO of the Year, Inside Memphis Business. GARY SHORB CEO, The Urban Child Institute. B.S., Clemson University, M.B.A., U of M. Previously, led expansion of Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown and new Le Bonheur hospital, and garnered the Corporation of the Year, Memphis Business Development Corporation, and best hospital in Memphis, U.S. News & World Report. Former board member, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Bioworks Foundation. Former chairman, Memphis Tomorrow.

CASEY KAUFMAN TANSEY President and CEO, Make-A-Wish Mid-South. B.S., University of Tennessee. President and CEO since August 2017, but has been with the organization since 2003. Make-AWish creates life-changing wishes for children between the ages of 2 and 18 with critical illnesses in north Missisippi, West Tennessee, and Arkansas. Chapter received national Make-A-Wish Inﬁnite Wish Award, multiple Fundraising Achievement Awards. Certiﬁcate of Fundraising Management, Indiana University. Member, national Chi Omega Steering Committee.

VAN TURNER Director and president, Memphis Greenspace. B.A., Morehouse College, magna cum laude. J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law. Commissioner, Shelby County District 12. Organization is dedicated to providing park-based recreation in Memphis and to strengthen neighborhood and community involvement. Responsible for removal of confederate statues from Memphis Park and Health Sciences Park. Member, Memphis, Mississippi, Tennessee, American, National Bar Associations. “Top 40 Under 40,” Memphis Business Journal. Mid-South Rising Stars 2010-2016, Super Lawyers.

MADELEINE C. TAYLOR Executive director, Memphis Branch NAACP. B.S., Simmons College; M.S., Cornell. NAACP’s mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens. Has worked for NAACP for more than 20 years. Memphis Branch is second largest in U.S. Former board member, Jessie Mahan Day Care Center, Girls, Inc., Girl Scouts Heart of the South. Recipient, FBI Community Service Award. Has worked for years with the Shelby County Links Beautillion and New Memphis.

JUNE WADDELL WEST Executive director, Memphis Heritage, Inc. B.F.A., University of Arkansas. Organization educates, advocates and coordinates groups to save, reuse, and maintain architecturally and historically signiﬁcant buildings and neighborhoods. Graduate, Leadership Memphis ‘95. Worked to successfully preserve buildings at Overton Square, Rowland Darnell Mansion, Tennessee Brewery, Hotel Chisca, Sears Crosstown. Working to preserve historic Pinch District, Aretha Franklin’s Birth Home, the Wm. Ellis Building, Mid-South Coliseum.

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Security

In this age of sophisticated criminals and corporate espionage, a company can never be too careful. Security firms are only too aware of the dangers — physical, tactical, electronic — that can face even the most cautious of companies. A single breach can spell major disruption, and it can endanger lives and livelihoods like never before. That’s why the U.S. security industry is forecast to grow nearly 4 percent annually through 2018, according to the National Security Industry Association. In this category, we name the Memphis POWER PLAYERS who keep us, our belongings, and our businesses safe. Whether your company needs guards, alarm and camera systems, or to fortify property as protection from foes one and all, these professionals will give you a peace of mind that is priceless. They protect and serve. CHRIS BIRD President, Dillard Door & Security, Inc. Past president, CrimeStoppers of Memphis. Past President, Door and Hardware Institute, Mid-South Chapter. Past vice president, Construction Speciﬁcations Institute. Member, State Leadership Council and State PAC, National Federation of Independent Business. Member, Greater Memphis Chamber, Electronic Security Association, American Society for Industrial Security, and Building Owners and Managers Association. Board member, Regional One Health Foundation.

KIM HEATHCOTT Founder and CEO, Clarion Security LLC. B.A. Economics, Vanderbilt; M.B.A., Southern Methodist University. Largest women-owned business and top 5 Pacesetter for the past two years, Services include uniformed, armed, and unarmed security ofﬁcers, security patrols, and alarm response. Past president, National Alliance of Women Business Owners, Memphis Chapter. Leadership Memphis 2012 graduate, Member, Small Business Council, Memphis Chamber. Co-Chairman, NAWBO women’s Accelerator. Married to Clarion Security President, Larry Heathcott.

E. WINSLOW “BUDDY” CHAPMAN Executive director, Crimestoppers of Memphis and Shelby County. B.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.S., Administration of Justice, Southern Illinois. Former manager of business development, Guardsmark; vice president and director of personnel administration, Dobbs International Services; director, Memphis Police Department, 1976-83. Past member, White House Presidential Advisory Commission on Law Enforcement. Graduate, Leadership Memphis.

BARRY MARSHALL President and Partner, Security One, Inc. More than 35 years of experience in public and private sectors. Graduate, U of M. Began career at Security One, the commercial security ﬁrm founded by his father in 1973. Joined Shelby County Sheriff’s Department in 1977 and serves as a reserve instructor with the Memphis Police Department. Security One rated as a top security company by the Memphis Business Journal, 2012 and 2013. Board member, Carnival Memphis.

JONATHAN FRASE Owner and CEO, Frase Protection. Company started by his father more than 40 years ago. Joined company after a successful career as a commercial airline pilot. Partner, Z-Tech Central, LLC, a wholesale alarm monitoring center based in Memphis. Chairman, St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen Advisory Board. Active member, Holy Spirit Catholic Church. Singer and rhythm guitarist for Minor Street Strings, a local country and bluegrass band. Proud husband and father of three children.

MICHAEL MCCUNE President, Corporate IQ, Inc. Served for 17 years with Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, working in Patrol, Fugitive, Civil, and Narcotics Divisions. Former President, Shelby County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association. Founded in 1998 to investigate internal thefts at a local trucking business, company is an upscale security firm managed and owned by former law enforcement professionals, specializing in armed residential patrol, armed limousine service, and armed executive protection utilizing former and off-duty law enforcement officers.

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PATTI PHELPS Owner and CEO, Phelps Security, Inc. Company founded in 1953 by Lloyd Phelps, Sr. After attending MSU and a career as Sales Manager for OES, Inc., purchased Phelps Security, Inc. with her late husband, Lloyd Phelps, Jr. Co-founder, B.I.G. for Memphis. Board Member, CrimeStoppers and Memphis Fallen Officer Memorial. Past board member, COMEC. Past Committee Chair, BOMA Emergency Preparedness Committee. More than 35 years experience managing and operating one of Memphis’ oldest security companies. Nationally certified, WomanOwned Business. CRAIG WEISS Co-founder and CEO, Central Defense Security. B.A., English, University of Texas at Austin; Executive M.B.A., U of M. Helped Central Defense Security become a leading security provider in the region. Immediate Past President, Memphis Jewish Community Center. Chairman of the Board, Paragon Bank. Executive Committee Member, United Way of the Mid-South. Board Member, Memphis Child Advocacy Center and Jewish Community Partners. National board member, Jewish Rock Radio and JCC Association. STANLEY ZITRON Founder and CFO, Avision Inc. Founded company in 1995, providing innovative surveillance and perimeter protection, utilizing megapixel cameras and wireless technology, and specializing in corporate, industrial, medical, retail, and educational security. Also founded The Showroom Inc., a chain of retail stores, and The Cancer Hot Line. Member, Electronic Security Association, Tennessee Burglar & Fire Alarm Association, National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association, and Better Business Bureau. Partner, AVIGILON, Inc. Company now offers Analytics with security cameras, helping customers be proactive against crime.

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Staffing

Good help can be hard to find, but local companies are well-prepared to take the guesswork out of the hiring process. Offering some combination of professional recruiting, personnel consulting, headhunting, and executive placement, these companies serve employer clients throughout the city, region, and country. Whether it be direct hire, contract, or contract-for-hire services, staffing agencies make it their business to fill the gaps in your workforce, with a broad range of job opportunities. These companies are dedicated to the talent needs of clients, as well as the goals and interests of the candidates they represent. The individuals bring a wealth of experience to their positions — from banking and accounting to personnel management and information technology — that broadens their expertise in staffing and human resources. GAREN HADDAD President and CEO, gatewaypersonnel. com, 33-year-old Executive Search & Staffing firm. Company specializes in accounting, finance, operations, engineering, technology, HR, administrative disciplines. Member, PinnacleSociety.com, nation’s premier consortium of top recruiters within executive search industry. Board Member, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Mid-South. KIRK JOHNSTON Senior managing partner, Vaco Memphis. B.A., Finance, University of Memphis. Vaco specializes in consulting, contract, and direct hire placements in technology, finance, accounting, marketing, supply chain, logistics. National company named to the Inc. 5000 “Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies” for 11 consecutive years. Vaco was named one of Memphis’ Best Places to Work in 2017 and a finalist for the 2017 Small Business Awards. Founding Member, Memphis chapter, AMA. Board Member, Orphanos Foundation, General Chairman, Mystic Society of the Memphi, 2018.

JAMES “JAY” F. KEEGAN JR. Chairman and founder of Bodock, Inc., a holding company with four operating subsidaries. President and CEO, Adams Keegan, a national HR services and software company. Founder and CEO, Staff Line, a multi-state staffing firm headquartered in Memphis. Co-Founder, The James Group, a multi-state life and health insurance agency. Member, Young Presidents’ Organization, Chairman’s Circle of Greater Memphis Chamber, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Memphis Club. Leadership Memphis and New Memphis alumnus. Past Chairman and Director, Emerge Memphis. Former director, Navy League of Memphis. DENISE BURNETT STEWART President/CEO, OR Nurses Nationwide, a Source One Company. R.N., St. John’s School of Nursing; B.S.N., Maryville College. “Largest Women Owned Business” from 2006-2010, and 2011 Corporate E Award, Tennessee Council on Women. Partner, The Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Certified, Joint Commission for Healthcare Staffing.

Administrator, American Heart Association Community Training Center. Board Member, Society of Entrepreneurs, LifeWing Partners, LLC, Church Health Center, and Baptist College of Health Sciences. DOTTY SUMMERFIELD GIUSTI President, Summerfield Associates, Inc. Certified WBE. Member and Recipient, Norbert I.B. Fried Ethics Award, National Association of Personnel Services. Charter Member, Million Dollar Circle. Member, Five Million Dollar Circle, Tennessee Association of Personnel Services. “50 Women Who Make A Difference,” Memphis Woman. Board Member, Memphis Child Advocacy Center and Better Business Bureau of the Mid-South. Founding Member, Greater Memphis Information Technology Council. DINAH TERRY CEO and President, Omni Staffing Plus, Inc. Graduated from Belhaven University in Memphis. Provides testing, training, and placement. Has been in position since 1999. Former Owner and Operator of OmniAdult Training Center, providing training and placement for medical transcription and terminology. Attracts highly motivated and committed employees who are empowered by providing them with career development opportunities. DAN WEDDLE President, ProTech Systems Group, Inc. B.B.A., University of Memphis. Firm offers talent acquisition, technology consulting, managed/cloud services. Company named 2016 Cisco South Partner of the Year. Received 2013 and 2014 Torch Award, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis, and 2015 National Medallion Award & National Award of Merit from the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Firm is technology partner and supporter of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis. Board Member, Streets Ministries, ESMOC CDC Inc. and the Greater Memphis IT Council. Leadership Memphis Executive Program, 2017.

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Adams, J. Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Adler, Kevitt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Alexander, Pam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Anderson, Calvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Andrews, Charlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Andrews, David S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Andrews, Jen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Archer, Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Armour, Meri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Arnold, Jeff L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Askew, Mark W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Austin, Roshun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Avery, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Bailey, Kirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Baker III, J. Austin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Bandele, Ekundayo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Barber, Scott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bares, Steven J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Bargiacchi, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Barlow, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Barnes, Greg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Barnett, Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Barry, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Batterson, Brett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Beal, Ron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bean, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Bearden, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Bearman Jr., Leo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Beasley, Ken E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Beaty, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Bellanti, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Belz, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Belz, Ronald “Ron” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Bennett, Kenneth R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Bicks, Nathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Bird, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Bollinger, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Bolton Jr., H. Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Bomar, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Botschner, Drew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Bouten, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Bowers, Becky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Bowling, W. Kerby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Boyle, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Brandon, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Brewer, Cindy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Bright, Ruby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Brockman, Scott A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Bronczek, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Brown, Kennard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Brown, Robert “Bob” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Browne, Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Brunson, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Buckner, Karen W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Buring, Danny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Burkett, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Bursi, Richard C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Burton, Tara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Butler, Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Byrd, Harold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Calvo, Mauricio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Camp, Jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Canty, Ned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Cannon, Jud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Carkeet, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Carpenter, Doug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Carpenter, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Carter, Robert B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cates, Andy (CRE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Cates, Andy (CEO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cates, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chalk, Lanny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Chandler, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Chapman, E. Winslow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Chase Jr., William J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Chauhan, Chirag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Chaum, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Christopher, Gregory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cianciola, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Citrone, Cheryl Burch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Clanton, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Clark, P. Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Cobbins, Darrell T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Coffee, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Collins, James F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Colwell, Robin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Conrad, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Cook, Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Coop, Phillip G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Cooper, Pace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Coopwood, Reginald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Cordell, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Corrigan Jr., J. Eustis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Cox, Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Cremerius, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Crislip, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Crone, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Crow, John D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Crum, Larry E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Crump, Metcalf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Crutcher, Pearson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Cuicchi, David L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dean, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 DeGutis, Vince . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Dehart, Trey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 DelBrocco, David L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 DePriest, Paul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Dixon, Dianne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Donati, Donald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Douglas, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Downing, James R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Drake, J. Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Ducker, Michael L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Dulberger, Reid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Dunavant III, William B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Dunavant Jr., William B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Dunavant, David L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Duncan, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Dyson, Shannon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Dyson, Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Earheart-Brown, Daniel “Jay” . . . . . . . . 64 Earl, Tommy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Eckstein, Eugene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Eddlestone, Debbie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Edwards, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Ehrlich, Jerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Elkington, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Ellett, Courtney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Elliot, Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Entzminger, Justin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Esrael, W. Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Etter, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Farnsworth, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Farrell, James P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Ferguson, Jim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Finnell, Kelly O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Finnell, Timothy J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Fish, Kathleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Fisher, Gwyn R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Fisher, Richard L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Fleming, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Fly, Buzz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Fockler, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Fogelman, Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Foley, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Ford, Mott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Forrester Jr., Eugene S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Forrester, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Frase, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Friedrich, Karl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Gardner, Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Garner, Douglas A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Garrett, Timothy N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Garrick, J. Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Gaushell, Charles T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 George, Mark H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Gibson, Kathy Buckman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Giles, William “Bill” T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Gillette, Robert J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Gilliam, Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Giusti, Dotty Summerfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Glassman, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Glays, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Gnuschke, John E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Godwin, Deborah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Golden, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Gomes-Solecki, Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Goodfellow, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Gossett, Al . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Gottlieb, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Graf Jr., Alan B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Grai, Angela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Green, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Gregory, Audrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Gregory, Randal L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Gresham, Cindi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Grey, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Griesbeck, John M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Griffin, Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Grimes Jr., Thomas L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Grinder, Fred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Gross, John R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Guinn, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Gwatney, Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Haddad, Garen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Hagan, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Haizlip, Reb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Hall, H. Dale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Hall, Jeffery S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Hall, Tracy D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Hall, Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Hallowell, Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Halperin, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Ham, Cynthia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Hamilton, Myra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Hancock, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 Harano, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Harris, Mark E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Harvey, Albert C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 Hass, Marjorie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Hawkins, O. Mason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Hawkins, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Hazen, Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Heathcott, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Heflin III, John J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Hein, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Heinz, Joseph R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Heinz, Sally Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Henry, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Henson, Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Hernandez, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Higginbotham-Moody, Trudy . . . . . . . . 22 Hill, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Hine, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Hines, Angie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Hoekstra, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Holcomb, Hampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Hollingsworth, Lance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Hood, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Hord, Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Hornyak, Jon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Howard-Flynn, Michele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Huss, Matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Hussong, Carissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Hutchinson, Randy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Hutton, Henry A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Hyde Jr., J.R. “Pitt” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hyde, Barbara Rosser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Isaacs, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Ivy Jr., John D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Jacobson, Paula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 James, Keith A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Janikowsky, Ralph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Jaqua, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Jensen, Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Johns, Onie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Johnson, Joel T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Johnson, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Johnson, Thomas B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Johnston, Kirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Jones, Don W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Jones, Tom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Jordan, Bryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 35 Jordan, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Jude, Carma C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Kamimura, Kunio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Kaufmann, Marcia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Kane, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Keegan Jr., James “Jay” F. . . . . . . . . . . 52, 93 Keller, Melanie Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Kelley, Christi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Kelman, Marty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Keras Jr., James J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 King, Doug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Kisber, Michael E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Klein, Jerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Klevan, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Krupicka, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Kruse, Karen M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Kvande, Thor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Lacy, Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Landaiche, Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Landau, Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Laury, Ann M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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contin u ed from page 95 Lawler, Patrick W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Lamm, Preston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Lammel, W. Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Landau, Glenn R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Leatherwood, Shantelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Less, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Lewis, John A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Lichterman, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Lightman, Michael A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Liles, Stinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Linder, Laura K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Linkous, Rusty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Lipman, Ira A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Litch, Debbie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Little, Jason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Litvin, Ari M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Loeb, Robert “Bob” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 57 Losch III, William C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Lynch, Clifford F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Magid, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Mallory III, W. Neely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Malmo, John R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 84 Malone, Deidre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Marshall, Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Marston Jr., J. Kenneth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Martin, Brad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Martin, H. Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Martini, Tony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Mathews, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Mathis Jr., S. Eugene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Maxwell, Charles D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 May, David C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 May, Sherry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mayhue-Greer, Estella H. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 McAdams, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 McCathie, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 McConnell, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 McCune, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 McDermott, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 McDuffie, Richard W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 McGarvey, Betty Sue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 McGee, Nancy Nunn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 McGehee, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 McGrew III, Frank A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 McKee Jr., Lewis K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 McKinney, Charles R. (Mack) . . . . . . . . . 62 McLaren, Michael G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 McLean, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 McManus, Michael S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 McQuiston II, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 McVean, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Meadows, Wendell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Medford, Mark A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Meeks Jr., Jim E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Mercer, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Merrill, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Michael, Jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Midgley, Katie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Miller, Andrea Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Miller, Robert F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Mitchell, Lawrence “Boo” . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Moody, Robert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Moore, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Moore Jr., Johnny B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Morehead, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Morgan Jr., Allen B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Morris, Dale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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Morris, Jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Morris, Valerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Morris, G. Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Morrison, Carl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Mounce, Erich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Mulroy II, James R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Myers, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Myers, Richard J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Neff, Emily Ballew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Nevels, Jenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Noel, Randall D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Norcross, Ernie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Norwood, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 O’Connor, Maureen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Ohneck, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Orr, Deano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Oseman, Stephen L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Ozier, Calvin W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Pace, Wm. Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Pacello, Tommy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Palmisano, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Park, Jeremy C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Patton Jr., Clyde L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Patton, Randy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Paylor, Kenneth David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Payne, B. Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Paine, Jody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Pearson, Jeffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Pera, Lucian T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Peters, J. Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Peterson, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Phelps, Patti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Phillips V, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Phillips, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Pickler, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Pierce Sr., Allen W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Pierotti, Andy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Pitts, Anne E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Pitts, John Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Pohlman, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Popwell, David T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Porter, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Posey III, William H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Powers, Nisha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Pratt, Harry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Prentice, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Prosterman, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Pugh, Dorothy Gunther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Quinn, Frank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Rasmussen, Robin H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Reich, Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Reid, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Reid, Glen G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Relling, Mary V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Rhodes, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Richards, Christine D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Ricks, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Riggins, Kirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Ring, Kristen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Ritchey Sr., Bruce Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Ritchey, Tammie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Robertson, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Robertson Jr., Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Robinson, Kenneth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Rodell, Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Rodriguez, Isaac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Rose, Gayle S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Rouse, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Rudd, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Saatkamp, Cynthia H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Saig, Edward “Eddie” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Sammons, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Sanders, Pete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Savage, Joe T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Scarboro, Douglas G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Schaeffer, Fred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Schaeffer, Joseph H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Scheidt, Rudi E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Scherer, Kathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Schledwitz, Karl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Schwab, Steve J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Sellers, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Shadyac Jr., Richard C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Sharp, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Shields, Stephen L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Shockey, Leigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Shorb, Gary S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Simmons, Sheperd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Sims Jr., Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 62 Sitler, Linn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Skinner, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Smarrelli Jr., John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Smith, Brad V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Smith, Bruce M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Smith, Frederick W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 35 Smith, Jeffrey C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Smith, Leslie Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Smith, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Smith, Stewart A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Smithwick III, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Smythe, Katie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Soden, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Spann, David J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Speer, John C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Spencer, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Stafford, W. Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Stallworth, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Steffner, Joseph L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Steorts, Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Stephenson, Susan S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Stephenson, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Stevenson, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Stewart, Denise Burnett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Stovall IV, W. Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Sullivan, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Sutton, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Swanson, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Tabor, Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Talley, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Tansey, Casey Kaufman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Tate, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Tate, Sylvester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Tayloe, William R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Taylor, Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Taylor, Madeleine C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Teixeira, Paulo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Terry, Dinah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Terry, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Thomas, Dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Thomason, Jeffrey L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Thorp, Susan Adler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Throckmorton, Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Tigrett, Pat Kerr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Toles, James H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Tomes, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Trenary, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Triplett, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Tucker, Jimmie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Tucker, Laurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Turley, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Turner Jr., Jesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Turner, Van . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Turner-Wilson, Lori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Ugwueke, Michael O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Underwood, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Van de Vuurst, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Varty, Nikhil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Waddell, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Wade, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Wagers, Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Wagner, Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Walker, Ceil T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Walker, Rob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Warne, Jeffrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Watson, Johnnie B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Weatherford, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Wedaman, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Weddle, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Weintraub, Jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Weiss, Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Wells, Murray B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 West, Becky Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 West, June Waddell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Wheeler, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 White, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Williams, Bryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Williams Jr., Earl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Williams, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Williams, Duncan F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Williams, Jimmie D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Williams, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Williams, Roby S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Williams, Russ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Williamson, Trent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Wishnia, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Wolfe, Matthew D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Wood III, Richard T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Woods, Chris L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Woods, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Woody, Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Wooldridge, J. Wesley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Wright, Keri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Wright, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Wunderlich, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Yancy III, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Yates, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Yoakum, Barry Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Young, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Young, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Young, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Zalowitz, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Zitron, Stanley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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